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title: Pele threw great masses of lava at Kama-puaa, striking and churning… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Pele threw great masses of lava at Kama-puaa, striking and churning the sea into which he leaped midst the swirling heated mass. Who acts: Pele, lava. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 108

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Pele threw great masses of lava at Kama-puaa, striking and churning the sea into which he leaped midst the swirling heated mass.

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**Who acts:** Pele, lava · **What happens:** throw, strike, churn, leap, swirl, heat · **To what, where:** great masses, Kama puaa, sea, midst

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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, lava), 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:pg66516:11:108
# text = Pele threw great masses of lava at Kama-puaa, striking and churning the sea into which he leaped midst the swirling heated mass.
1	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	masses	mass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Kama	Kama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	puaa	puaa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	churning	churn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	leaped	leap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
21	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	swirling	swirl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
24	heated	heat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | Pele | great masses of lava |  | Kama puaa |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent mass=Theme at puaa=Destination |
| 2 | **strike** | gerund | Pele *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **churn** | gerund | Pele *not said here* | the sea |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Product |
| 4 | **leap** | past | lava | midst |  |  |  | which *obl*; the swirling heated mass *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **swirl** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **heat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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