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title: She was no longer the common native, but was the beautiful young chi… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: She was no longer the common native, but was the beautiful young chiefess in her fire-body, eyes flaming and hair floating back in clouds of smoke. Who acts: Pele, eyes. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali, with its dependency tree and th
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 63

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She was no longer the common native, but was the beautiful young chiefess in her fire-body, eyes flaming and hair floating back in clouds of smoke.

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**Who acts:** Pele, eyes · **What happens:** be, flame, float back, cloud · **To what, where:** beautiful young chiefess, fire body, clouds, smoke

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pele, eyes), 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:pg66516:10:63
# text = She was no longer the common native, but was the beautiful young chiefess in her fire-body, eyes flaming and hair floating back in clouds of smoke.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	no	no	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	chiefess	chiefess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	_
22	flaming	flame	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	conj	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Pele |  |  |  |  | long, native *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Pele *not said here* | the beautiful young chiefess |  | Pele's fire body |  | eyes *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **flame** | gerund | eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hair *conj* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **float back** | gerund | eyes *not said here* |  |  | clouds of smoke |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cloud=Trajectory |
| 5 | **cloud** |  |  | smoke |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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