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title: Thus by her spirit-power she looked back to Hawaii and saw Puna deva… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus by her spirit-power she looked back to Hawaii and saw Puna devastated and the land covered by the destructive floods of lava sent out by Pele. Who acts: Keaau, Puna, lava. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, with its dependenc
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 82

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Thus by her spirit-power she looked back to Hawaii and saw Puna devastated and the land covered by the destructive floods of lava sent out by Pele.

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**Who acts:** Keaau, Puna, lava · **What happens:** look back, see, devastate, cover, send out, flood · **To what, where:** Hawaii, land, lava · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Keaau, Puna, 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:pg66516:15:82
# text = Thus by her spirit-power she looked back to Hawaii and saw Puna devastated and the land covered by the destructive floods of lava sent out by Pele.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	Puna	Puna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	devastated	devastate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	destructive	destructive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	floods	flood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	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 | **look back** | past | Keaau |  | Hawaii |  |  | by Keaau's spirit power; thus *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by power=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | Keaau *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **devastate** | past | Puna | the land |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus land=Experiencer |
| 4 | **cover** | participle |  | the land *not said here* |  |  |  | by the destructive floods of lava | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **send out** | participle |  | lava *not said here* |  |  |  | by Pele | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **flood** |  | lava |  |  |  |  |  | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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