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title: Moreover, for nearly two days the lava found an underground channel… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Moreover, for nearly two days the lava found an underground channel from which it burst forth at times with explosions attended by earthquakes which shook the western coast of the island. Who acts: lava, earthquakes. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na P
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 7

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Moreover, for nearly two days the lava found an underground channel from which it burst forth at times with explosions attended by earthquakes which shook the western coast of the island.

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**Who acts:** lava, earthquakes · **What happens:** find, burst, attend, shake · **To what, where:** underground channel, explosions, western coast

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lava, earthquakes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66516:7:7
# text = Moreover, for nearly two days the lava found an underground channel from which it burst forth at times with explosions attended by earthquakes which shook the western coast of the island.
1	Moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	channel	channel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
17	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	explosions	explosion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | the lava | a underground channel |  |  | day | moreover *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent channel=Topic |
| 2 | **burst** | past | lava |  |  |  | time | with explosions; which *obl*; forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **attend** | participle |  | explosions *not said here* |  |  |  | by earthquakes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by earthquake=Theme |
| 4 | **shake** | past | earthquakes | the western coast of the island |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent coast=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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