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title: Then she will become angry and throw ashes. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she will become angry and throw ashes. Who acts: woman. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Water of Life [1], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life \[1\], sentence 139

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Then she will become angry and throw ashes.

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** become, throw · **To what, where:** ashes

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Water of Life \[1\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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:pg66357:4:139
# text = Then she will become angry and throw ashes.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | future | woman |  |  |  | then | angry *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **throw** | infinitive | woman *not said here* | ashes |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ash=Theme |

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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 Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (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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