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title: Rapidly the surface was cooled and the fountains checked by the wate… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Rapidly the surface was cooled and the fountains checked by the water thrown in by Kama-puaa, but just as rapidly were new openings made and new streams of fire hurled at the demi-god of Oahu. Who acts: water, new openings. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervel
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 74

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Rapidly the surface was cooled and the fountains checked by the water thrown in by Kama-puaa, but just as rapidly were new openings made and new streams of fire hurled at the demi-god of Oahu.

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**Who acts:** water, new openings · **What happens:** cool, check, throw in, be, make, hurl · **To what, where:** surface, fountains, water, new openings, new streams, fire

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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 (water, new openings), 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:pg66516:11:74
# text = Rapidly the surface was cooled and the fountains checked by the water thrown in by Kama-puaa, but just as rapidly were new openings made and new streams of fire hurled at the demi-god of Oahu.
1	Rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	cooled	cool	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	Kama	Kama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	puaa	puaa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	just	just	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	openings	opening	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	hurled	hurl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	demi	demi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cool** | past · passive |  | the surface |  |  |  | rapidly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **check** | participle · passive | the water | the fountains |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **throw in** | participle |  | the water *not said here* |  |  |  | by Kama puaa | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by puaa=Destination |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | new openings |  |  |  | rapidly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | participle | new openings *not said here* | new streams of fire |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 6 | **hurl** | participle |  | fire *not said here* |  |  |  | at the demi god of Oahu | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at god=Destination |

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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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