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title: Her home was in the great fire-pit of the volcano of Kilauea on the… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Her home was in the great fire-pit of the volcano of Kilauea on the island of Hawaii, and all the eruptions of lava have borne her name wherever they may have appeared. Who acts: home, eruptions, lava, Pele. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Genealogy of 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 31

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Her home was in the great fire-pit of the volcano of Kilauea on the island of Hawaii, and all the eruptions of lava have borne her name wherever they may have appeared.

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**Who acts:** home, eruptions, lava, Pele · **What happens:** be, bear, appear, erupt, name · **To what, where:** great fire pit, eruptions

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Genealogy of the Pele Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (home, eruptions, lava, Pele), 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:pg66516:13:31
# text = Her home was in the great fire-pit of the volcano of Kilauea on the island of Hawaii, and all the eruptions of lava have borne her name wherever they may have appeared.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	volcano	volcano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	eruptions	eruption	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux	_	_
35	appeared	appear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Pele's home |  |  | the great fire pit |  | of the volcano of Kilauea on the island of Hawaii | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | present · perfect · passive |  | all eruptions of lava |  |  |  | Pele's name *obj* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary name=Patient |
| 3 | **appear** | may · perfect | eruptions *= eruption* |  |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **erupt** |  | lava |  |  |  |  |  | nom eruption «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **name** |  | Pele |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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