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title: In her hands lay the power to hold in check the eruptions which migh… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: In her hands lay the power to hold in check the eruptions which might break forth through the old cinder cones in the floor of the great crater. Who acts: hands, eruptions. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Snow-goddess, with its dependency t
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 11

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In her hands lay the power to hold in check the eruptions which might break forth through the old cinder cones in the floor of the great crater.

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**Who acts:** hands, eruptions · **What happens:** lie, hold, break · **To what, where:** power, check, old cinder cones

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Snow-goddess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands, 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:pg66516:12:11
# text = In her hands lay the power to hold in check the eruptions which might break forth through the old cinder cones in the floor of the great crater.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	eruptions	eruption	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	cinder	cinder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	cones	cone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	crater	crater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | Lilinoe's hands | the power |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location power=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | to-infinitive | Lilinoe's hands *not said here* | check  the eruptions |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent check=Theme |
| 3 | **break** | might | the eruptions |  |  | the old cinder cones in the floor of the great crater |  | forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through cone=Location |

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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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