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title: Red water and white water fled seaward, and the stormy-heart of the… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Red water and white water fled seaward, and the stormy-heart of the ocean rose in tumbled heaps. Who acts: Red water, stormy heart. 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 141

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Red water and white water fled seaward, and the stormy-heart of the ocean rose in tumbled heaps.

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**Who acts:** Red water, stormy heart · **What happens:** flee, rise, tumble · **To what, where:** seaward, tumbled heaps

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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 (Red water, stormy heart), 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:pg66516:14:141
# text = Red water and white water fled seaward, and the stormy-heart of the ocean rose in tumbled heaps.
1	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	seaward	seaward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	stormy	stormy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	tumbled	tumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | past | Red water and white water | seaward |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme seaward=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **rise** | past | the stormy heart of the ocean |  |  | tumbled heaps |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in heap=Location |
| 3 | **tumble** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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