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title: Full of fire were her eyes and dark was her face with hot blood, but… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Full of fire were her eyes and dark was her face with hot blood, but she only said: “You have seen Niihau. Who acts: eyes, dark face, You. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 123

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Full of fire were her eyes and dark was her face with hot blood, but she only said: “You have seen Niihau.

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**Who acts:** eyes, dark face, You · **What happens:** be, say, see · **To what, where:** dark face, Niihau · **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 (eyes, dark face, You), 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:pg66516:14:123
# text = Full of fire were her eyes and dark was her face with hot blood, but she only said: “You have seen Niihau.
1	Full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	ccomp	_	_
25	Niihau	Niihau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Kilinoe's eyes |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | Kilinoe's dark face |  |  |  | with hot blood; Kilinoe *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Kilinoe's dark face |  |  |  |  | face *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | present · perfect | You | Niihau |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer niihau=Stimulus |

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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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