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title: She looked out over the death-dealing seas into which she could not… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: She looked out over the death-dealing seas into which she could not flee, and then began the dance of death. Who acts: torrent. 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 87

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She looked out over the death-dealing seas into which she could not flee, and then began the dance of death.

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**Who acts:** torrent · **What happens:** look out, deal, not flee, begin, dance · **To what, where:** dealing seas, dance, death

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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 (torrent), 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:pg66516:15:87
# text = She looked out over the death-dealing seas into which she could not flee, and then began the dance of death.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	dealing	deal	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	flee	flee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look out** | past | torrent |  |  | the dealing seas |  | out *property* | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **deal** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | death *compound* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **flee** | could | torrent |  |  | the dealing seas |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into which=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **begin** | past | torrent *not said here* | the dance of death |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Eventuality |
| 5 | **dance** |  |  | death |  |  |  |  | nom dance «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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