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title: The waiting and impatient goddess of fire became angry with her mess… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The waiting and impatient goddess of fire became angry with her messenger and hurled lava from the pit crater down into the forests which she had promised to protect. Who acts: waiting. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, with its 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 70

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The waiting and impatient goddess of fire became angry with her messenger and hurled lava from the pit crater down into the forests which she had promised to protect.

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**Who acts:** waiting · **What happens:** become, hurl, promise, protect · **To what, where:** lava, pit crater, forests

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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 (waiting), 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:pg66516:15:70
# text = The waiting and impatient goddess of fire became angry with her messenger and hurled lava from the pit crater down into the forests which she had promised to protect.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	impatient	impatient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hurled	hurl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	crater	crater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the waiting and impatient goddess of fire |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **hurl** | past | the waiting and impatient goddess of fire *not said here* | lava |  | the pit crater |  | into the forests; down *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent lava=Theme from crater=Initial\_Location into forest=Destination |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · perfect · passive |  | the forests |  |  |  | Hiiaka *nsubj* | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **protect** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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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