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title: Her former lover, hastening after her and striving to overcome her,… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Her former lover, hastening after her and striving to overcome her, followed her upward until at last amid clouds of poisonous gases she went back into her spirit home in the pit of Kilauea. Who acts: former lover, Pele. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 68

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Her former lover, hastening after her and striving to overcome her, followed her upward until at last amid clouds of poisonous gases she went back into her spirit home in the pit of Kilauea.

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**Who acts:** former lover, Pele · **What happens:** hasten, strive, overcome, follow, go back, cloud · **To what, where:** Pele, upward, poisonous gases, spirit

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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 (former lover, 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:pg66516:11:68
# text = Her former lover, hastening after her and striving to overcome her, followed her upward until at last amid clouds of poisonous gases she went back into her spirit home in the pit of Kilauea.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	hastening	hasten	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	striving	strive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	overcome	overcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	upward	upward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	_
17	until	until	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	amid	amid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	gases	gas	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	home	home	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | gerund | Pele's former lover *not said here* |  |  |  | after Pele |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **strive** | gerund | Pele's former lover *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **overcome** | to-infinitive | Pele's former lover *not said here* | Pele |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** | past | Pele's former lover | Pele's upward |  |  | until last amid clouds of poisonous gases |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upward=Theme |
| 5 | **go back** | past | Pele | poisonous gases *not said here* |  | Pele's spirit |  | in the pit of Kilauea; home *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **cloud** |  |  | poisonous gases |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon 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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