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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 29

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Here Kama-puaa looked down upon a fire-dance, wherein Pele and her sisters, wrapped in filmy gowns of bluish haze, swept back and forth over the lake of fire, the pressure of their footfalls marked by hundreds of boiling bubbles rising and bursting under their tread, until the entire surface was a restless sea covered with choppy waves of fire.

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**Who acts:** Kama puaa, boiling bubbles, entire surface, bubbles · **What happens:** look down, wrap, sweep, mark, rise, burst · **To what, where:** Pele, filmy gowns, lake, footfalls, tread, restless sea

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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 (Kama puaa, boiling bubbles, entire surface, bubbles), 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:pg66516:11:29
# text = Here Kama-puaa looked down upon a fire-dance, wherein Pele and her sisters, wrapped in filmy gowns of bluish haze, swept back and forth over the lake of fire, the pressure of their footfalls marked by hundreds of boiling bubbles rising and bursting under their tread, until the entire surface was a restless sea covered with choppy waves of fire.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Kama	Kama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	puaa	puaa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
14	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	filmy	filmy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	gowns	gown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	bluish	bluish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	haze	haze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	back	back	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	28	conj	_	_
31	over	over	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	footfalls	footfall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
42	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl	_	_
43	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	boiling	boiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	_
48	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	47	acl	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	bursting	burst	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	48	conj	_	_
51	under	under	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	tread	tread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
55	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	62	mark	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
59	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	62	cop	_	_
60	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
61	restless	restless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	parataxis	_	_
63	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	62	acl	_	_
64	with	with	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	choppy	choppy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
66	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	obl:agent	_	_
67	of	of	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
68	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look down** | past | Kama puaa |  |  | here |  | upon a fire dance; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon dance=Theme |
| 2 | **wrap** | participle · passive |  | Pele and Pele's sisters |  | filmy gowns of bluish haze |  | wherein *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in gown=Destination |
| 3 | **sweep** | past | Kama puaa *not said here* |  |  | the lake of fire and the pressure of gowns's footfalls |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over lake=Trajectory |
| 4 | **mark** | participle |  | gowns's footfalls *not said here* |  |  |  | by hundreds of boiling bubbles | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent by hundred=Destination |
| 5 | **rise** | gerund | boiling bubbles *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **burst** | gerund | boiling bubbles *not said here* |  |  | bubbles's tread |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tread=Location |
| 7 | **is a** | past | the entire surface | a restless sea |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **cover** | participle |  | a restless sea *not said here* |  |  |  | choppy waves of fire *obl:agent* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **press** |  |  | gowns's footfalls |  |  |  |  | nom pressure «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 10 | **tread** |  | bubbles *= bubble* |  |  |  |  |  | nom tread «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 11 | **wave** |  |  | fire |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event 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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