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description: The story of the jealousy and anger of Pele, which resulted in overwhelming Hopoe in a flood of lava and placing her in the form of a balanced rock to dance by the sea to the music of the eternally moving surf, is a story which must be kept on record for the lovers of Hawaiian folklore. Who acts: je
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 6

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The story of the jealousy and anger of Pele, which resulted in overwhelming Hopoe in a flood of lava and placing her in the form of a balanced rock to dance by the sea to the music of the eternally moving surf, is a story which must be kept on record for the lovers of Hawaiian folklore.

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**Who acts:** jealousy, story, Pele, lava · **What happens:** result, place, balance, dance, move, be · **To what, where:** overwhelming Hopoe, Pele, form, story, record, balanced rock

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. 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 (jealousy, story, Pele, lava), 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:pg66516:15:6
# text = The story of the jealousy and anger of Pele, which resulted in overwhelming Hopoe in a flood of lava and placing her in the form of a balanced rock to dance by the sea to the music of the eternally moving surf, is a story which must be kept on record for the lovers of Hawaiian folklore.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	resulted	result	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	overwhelming	overwhelming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Hopoe	Hopoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	placing	place	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	balanced	balance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	eternally	eternally	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	43	amod	_	_
43	surf	surf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
48	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	obj	_	_
49	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
50	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	acl:relcl	_	_
52	on	on	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
54	for	for	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	folklore	folklore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	47	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **result** | past | the jealousy and anger of Pele |  |  | overwhelming Hopoe |  | in a flood of lava | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hopoe=Location |
| 2 | **place** | gerund | the jealousy and anger of Pele *not said here* | Pele |  | the form of a balanced rock |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in form=Destination |
| 3 | **balance** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **dance** | to-infinitive | the jealousy and anger of Pele *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the sea; to the music of the moving surf | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sea=Location |
| 5 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | eternally *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | present | the story of the jealousy and anger of Pele | a story |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **keep** | must · passive |  | a story |  | record |  | for the lovers of Hawaiian folklore | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: which=Theme on record=Location |
| 8 | **anger** |  | Pele |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |
| 9 | **flood** |  | lava |  |  |  |  |  | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
| 10 | **form** |  |  | a balanced rock |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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