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title: Pele was never patient even with her sisters, so with Kama-puaa she… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Pele was never patient even with her sisters, so with Kama-puaa she would burst into fiery rage, while taunts and bitter words were freely hurled back and forth. Who acts: Pele. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa, with its dependency tre
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 51

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Pele was never patient even with her sisters, so with Kama-puaa she would burst into fiery rage, while taunts and bitter words were freely hurled back and forth.

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**Who acts:** Pele · **What happens:** not be, burst, hurl · **To what, where:** fiery rage, taunts

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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), 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:pg66516:11:51
# text = Pele was never patient even with her sisters, so with Kama-puaa she would burst into fiery rage, while taunts and bitter words were freely hurled back and forth.
1	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	patient	patient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Kama	Kama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	puaa	puaa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	burst	burst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
23	taunts	taunt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
28	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	hurled	hurl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | Pele |  |  |  |  | with Pele's sisters; patient *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **burst** | would | Pele |  |  | fiery rage |  | with Kama puaa | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hurl** | past · passive |  | taunts and bitter words |  |  |  | freely *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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