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title: Pele soon stood on the beach hurling red-hot rocks at him which the… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Pele soon stood on the beach hurling red-hot rocks at him which the natives say can still be seen lying on the bottom of the sea. Who acts: Pele, natives, hurling. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 85

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Pele soon stood on the beach hurling red-hot rocks at him which the natives say can still be seen lying on the bottom of the sea.

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**Who acts:** Pele, natives, hurling · **What happens:** stand, hurl, say, see, lie · **To what, where:** beach, red hot rocks, bottom · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, natives, hurling), 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:pg66516:10:85
# text = Pele soon stood on the beach hurling red-hot rocks at him which the natives say can still be seen lying on the bottom of the sea.
1	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	hurling	hurl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	csubj	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	natives	native	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
22	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	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 |  |  | the beach |  | soon *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on beach=Location |
| 2 | **hurl** | gerund |  | red hot rocks |  |  |  | at wali | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent rock=Theme at he=Destination |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the natives | red hot rocks |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic |
| 4 | **see** | can · passive | hurling |  |  |  | still |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **lie** | gerund | hurling *not said here* |  |  | the bottom of the sea |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bottom=Location |

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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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