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title: The watching people, overcome with wonder and fear, were turned into… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The watching people, overcome with wonder and fear, were turned into a multitude of pillars [2] of lava, never changing, never moving through all the ages. Who acts: watching people. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, with its 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 48

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The watching people, overcome with wonder and fear, were turned into a multitude of pillars \[2\] of lava, never changing, never moving through all the ages.

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**Who acts:** watching people · **What happens:** watch, overcome, turn, not change, not move · **To what, where:** watching people, multitude, ages

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Chiefs of Puna. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (watching people), 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:pg66516:8:48
# text = The watching people, overcome with wonder and fear, were turned into a multitude of pillars [2] of lava, never changing, never moving through all the ages.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	overcome	overcome	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
29	through	through	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **overcome** | present | the watching people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with wonder and fear | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **turn** | past · passive |  | the watching people |  | a multitude of pillars |  | 2 of lava *xcomp* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into multitude=Trajectory |
| 4 | **not** **change** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **move** | gerund |  |  |  |  | through all ages |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through age=Trajectory |

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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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