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title: When the earth seemed ready to open its doors and pour out mighty st… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: When the earth seemed ready to open its doors and pour out mighty streams of flowing lava in the defence of Pele, Kama-puaa called for the waters of the ocean to rise up. Who acts: earth, mighty streams. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-pua
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 65

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When the earth seemed ready to open its doors and pour out mighty streams of flowing lava in the defence of Pele, Kama-puaa called for the waters of the ocean to rise up.

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**Who acts:** earth, mighty streams · **What happens:** seem, open, pour out, flow, call, rise up · **To what, where:** doors, mighty streams, lava, defence, Kama puaa, Pele · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (earth, mighty streams), 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:pg66516:11:65
# text = When the earth seemed ready to open its doors and pour out mighty streams of flowing lava in the defence of Pele, Kama-puaa called for the waters of the ocean to rise up.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	pour	pour	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	Kama	Kama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	puaa	puaa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
27	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | the earth |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | to-infinitive | the earth *not said here* | bitterness's doors |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 3 | **pour out** | present | the earth *not said here* | mighty streams |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Patient |
| 4 | **flow** | gerund | mighty streams *not said here* | lava |  | the defence of Pele |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lava=Theme |
| 5 | **call** | participle |  | Kama puaa *not said here* |  |  |  | for the waters of the ocean | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for water=Recipient |
| 6 | **rise up** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **defend** |  |  | Pele |  |  |  |  | nom defence «process 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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