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title: For a long time she chanted, calling wind after wind, and while she… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: For a long time she chanted, calling wind after wind, and while she sang, soft breezes blew around and through the house; then came stronger winds whistling through the trees outside. Who acts: chief, soft breezes, stronger winds. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. We
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 114

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For a long time she chanted, calling wind after wind, and while she sang, soft breezes blew around and through the house; then came stronger winds whistling through the trees outside.

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**Who acts:** chief, soft breezes, stronger winds · **What happens:** chant, call, sing, blow around, come, whistle · **To what, where:** wind, stronger winds, trees · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, soft breezes, stronger winds), 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:pg66516:14:114
# text = For a long time she chanted, calling wind after wind, and while she sang, soft breezes blew around and through the house; then came stronger winds whistling through the trees outside.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	chanted	chant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	breezes	breeze	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	around	around	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
28	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
29	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
30	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	whistling	whistle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
32	through	through	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
35	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chant** | past | chief |  |  |  | time |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** | gerund | chief *not said here* | wind |  |  | after wind |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wind=Recipient |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | chief |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 4 | **blow around** | past | soft breezes |  |  |  |  | the house *conj*; around *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **come** | past | chief *not said here* | stronger winds |  |  | then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wind=Theme |
| 6 | **whistle** | gerund | stronger winds *not said here* |  |  | the trees |  | outside *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=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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