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title: Pele followed close behind, striving to overtake him before he could… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Pele followed close behind, striving to overtake him before he could reach the water. Who acts: Pele, hog. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 106

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Pele followed close behind, striving to overtake him before he could reach the water.

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**Who acts:** Pele, hog · **What happens:** follow, strive, overtake, reach · **To what, where:** hog, water

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pele, hog), 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:pg66516:11:106
# text = Pele followed close behind, striving to overtake him before he could reach the water.
1	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	striving	strive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	overtake	overtake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | Pele |  |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **strive** | gerund | Pele *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **overtake** | to-infinitive | Pele *not said here* | hog |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **reach** | could | hog | the water |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent water=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 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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