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title: The legends say that the hog-man, Kama-puaa, poured water into the c… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The legends say that the hog-man, Kama-puaa, poured water into the crater until its fires were driven back to their lowest depths and Pele was almost drowned by the floods. Who acts: legends, Kama puaa, floods, surface. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, P
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 76

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The legends say that the hog-man, Kama-puaa, poured water into the crater until its fires were driven back to their lowest depths and Pele was almost drowned by the floods.

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**Who acts:** legends, Kama puaa, floods, surface · **What happens:** say, pour, drive back, drown, fire · **To what, where:** water, crater, fires, 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 (legends, Kama puaa, floods, surface), 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:pg66516:11:76
# text = The legends say that the hog-man, Kama-puaa, poured water into the crater until its fires were driven back to their lowest depths and Pele was almost drowned by the floods.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	hog	hog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	Kama	Kama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	puaa	puaa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	crater	crater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	lowest	low	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
28	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	floods	flood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the legends |  |  |  |  | the hog man *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pour** | participle | Kama puaa *not said here* | water |  | the crater |  |  | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme into crater=Destination |
| 3 | **drive back** | past · passive |  | surface's fires |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 4 | **drown** | past · passive | the floods | Pele |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 5 | **fire** |  | surface |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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