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title: There she stood leaning forward to catch her antagonist, and urging… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: There she stood leaning forward to catch her antagonist, and urging her fire-waves to the swiftest possible action. Who acts: Pele. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 64

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There she stood leaning forward to catch her antagonist, and urging her fire-waves to the swiftest possible action.

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**Who acts:** Pele · **What happens:** stand, lean, catch, urge, wave · **To what, where:** antagonist, fire waves

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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), 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:pg66516:10:64
# text = There she stood leaning forward to catch her antagonist, and urging her fire-waves to the swiftest possible action.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	antagonist	antagonist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	urging	urge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	swiftest	swift	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
20	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Pele |  |  | there |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lean** | gerund | Pele *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **catch** | to-infinitive | Pele *not said here* | Pele's antagonist |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antagonist=Theme |
| 4 | **urge** | gerund | Pele *not said here* | Pele's fire waves |  |  |  | to the swiftest possible action | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Recipient |
| 5 | **wave** |  | Pele |  |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event transitive»: poss=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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