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title: He usually appeared as a man, but when his brutal desires to destroy… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: He usually appeared as a man, but when his brutal desires to destroy overcame him or when he wished to hide from any one he adopted the form of a hog. Who acts: puaa, brutal desires. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa, with its dependenc
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 5

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He usually appeared as a man, but when his brutal desires to destroy overcame him or when he wished to hide from any one he adopted the form of a hog.

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**Who acts:** puaa, brutal desires · **What happens:** appear, destroy, overcame, wish, hide, adopt · **To what, where:** puaa, form, hog

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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 (puaa, brutal desires), 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:pg66516:11:5
# text = He usually appeared as a man, but when his brutal desires to destroy overcame him or when he wished to hide from any one he adopted the form of a hog.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	brutal	brutal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	desires	desire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	overcame	overcame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	hog	hog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | puaa |  |  |  |  | as a man; usually *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **destroy** | to-infinitive | puaa's brutal desires *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **overcame** | infinitive | puaa's brutal desires | puaa |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wish** | past | puaa |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **hide** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | puaa *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from any one | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from one=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **adopt** | past | puaa | the form of a hog |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 7 | **desire** |  | puaa |  |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **form** |  |  | a hog |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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