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title: Kama-puaa thought he had destroyed Pele’s resources, but just as his… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Kama-puaa thought he had destroyed Pele’s resources, but just as his wonderful storms had put forth their greatest efforts, Lono-makua kindled the flames of fierce eruptions once more. Who acts: thought, Kama puaa thought, fierce eruptions. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» b
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 96

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Kama-puaa thought he had destroyed Pele’s resources, but just as his wonderful storms had put forth their greatest efforts, Lono-makua kindled the flames of fierce eruptions once more.

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**Who acts:** thought, Kama puaa thought, fierce eruptions · **What happens:** destroy, put, kindle, storm, flame · **To what, where:** resources, wonderful storms, flames

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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 (thought, Kama puaa thought, fierce eruptions), 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:pg66516:11:96
# text = Kama-puaa thought he had destroyed Pele’s resources, but just as his wonderful storms had put forth their greatest efforts, Lono-makua kindled the flames of fierce eruptions once more.
1	Kama	Kama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	puaa	puaa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:outer	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
20	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	Lono	Lono	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	makua	makua	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	kindled	kindle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	eruptions	eruption	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
34	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	35	advmod	_	_
35	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** | past · perfect | thought | Pele's resources |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resource=Patient |
| 2 | **put** | past · perfect · passive |  | thought's wonderful storms |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 3 | **kindle** | past | Kama puaa thought | the flames of fierce eruptions |  |  |  | resources's greatest efforts and Lono makua *nsubj* | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition flame=Patient |
| 4 | **storm** |  | thought |  |  |  |  |  | nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **flame** |  | fierce eruptions |  |  |  |  |  | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=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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