--- title: At last she determined to visit Ailaau, the god residing in Kilauea,… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics description: At last she determined to visit Ailaau, the god residing in Kilauea, but he had fled from her and she had taken his place and found a home in the earthquake-shaken pit of molten lava, leaping fire, and overwhelming sulphur smoke. Who acts: Pele, god, Ailaau. 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D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pele, god, Ailaau), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66516:15:24 # text = At last she determined to visit Ailaau, the god residing in Kilauea, but he had fled from her and she had taken his place and found a home in the earthquake-shaken pit of molten lava, leaping fire, and overwhelming sulphur smoke. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 determined determine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 visit visit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 Ailaau Ailaau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 god god NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 11 residing reside VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Kilauea Kilauea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 fled flee VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 33 earthquake earthquake NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 shaken shake VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 amod _ _ 36 pit pit NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 molten molten ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 lava lava NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 leaping leap VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 42 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 45 overwhelming overwhelming ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 46 sulphur sulphur NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **determine** | past | Pele | | | last | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **visit** | to-infinitive | Pele *not said here* | Ailaau | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ailaau=Co-Agent | | 3 | **reside** | gerund | the god *not said here* | | | Kilauea | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kilauea=Location | | 4 | **flee** | past · perfect | Ailaau | | | | | from Pele | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from she=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **take** | past · perfect | Pele | Ailaau's place | | | | overwhelming sulphur smoke *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | | 6 | **find** | past | Pele *not said here* | a home | | the shaken pit of molten lava | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Topic | | 7 | **shake** | participle | | | | | | earthquake *compound* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **leap** | gerund | Pele *not said here* | fire | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fire=Trajectory | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/15/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/15/25/) - ↑ back to [Hopoe, the Dancing Stone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/15/)