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title: Fiercer and more devouring were the lava floods hurled out over the… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Fiercer and more devouring were the lava floods hurled out over the forest so loved by Hiiaka. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 78

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Fiercer and more devouring were the lava floods hurled out over the forest so loved by Hiiaka.

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**What happens:** devour, be, hurl out, love · **To what, where:** Fiercer lava, forest

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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: 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:pg66516:15:78
# text = Fiercer and more devouring were the lava floods hurled out over the forest so loved by Hiiaka.
1	Fiercer	fierce	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	devouring	devour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	floods	flood	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	hurled	hurl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **devour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the Fiercer lava |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hurl out** | present · passive |  | the Fiercer lava |  | the forest |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme over forest=Destination |
| 4 | **love** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | Hiiaka *obl:agent* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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