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title: Thus for nearly three days the country throbbed with excitement beca… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus for nearly three days the country throbbed with excitement because of the uncertainty attending the continued action of the lava flow. Who acts: country, uncertainty, lava flow. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele, with its dependency tre
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 9

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Thus for nearly three days the country throbbed with excitement because of the uncertainty attending the continued action of the lava flow.

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**Who acts:** country, uncertainty, lava flow · **What happens:** throb, attend, continue, act · **To what, where:** continued action

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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 (country, uncertainty, lava flow), 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:pg66516:7:9
# text = Thus for nearly three days the country throbbed with excitement because of the uncertainty attending the continued action of the lava flow.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	throbbed	throb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	excitement	excitement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	uncertainty	uncertainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	attending	attend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	flow	flow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throb** | participle | the country |  |  |  | day | with excitement; because the uncertainty; thus *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **attend** | gerund | the uncertainty *not said here* | the continued action of the lava flow |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme action=Goal |
| 3 | **continue** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **act** |  | the lava flow |  |  |  |  |  | nom action «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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