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title: They embodied the mythical ideas of spirits carrying on eternal warf… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: They embodied the mythical ideas of spirits carrying on eternal warfare between heat and cold, fire and frost, burning lava and stony ice. Who acts: maidens, spirits. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Snow-goddess, with its dependency tree an
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 4

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They embodied the mythical ideas of spirits carrying on eternal warfare between heat and cold, fire and frost, burning lava and stony ice.

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**Who acts:** maidens, spirits · **What happens:** embody, carry, burn · **To what, where:** mythical ideas, eternal warfare, lava

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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 (maidens, spirits), 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:pg66516:12:4
# text = They embodied the mythical ideas of spirits carrying on eternal warfare between heat and cold, fire and frost, burning lava and stony ice.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	embodied	embody	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	mythical	mythical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	eternal	eternal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	warfare	warfare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	between	between	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
22	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	stony	stony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embody** | past | maidens *= maiden* | the mythical ideas of spirits |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | gerund | spirits *not said here* |  |  | eternal warfare between heat and fire and frost |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **burn** | gerund | spirits *not said here* | lava and stony ice |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lava=Theme |

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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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