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title: There Pele’s fires caught her but did not devour her. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: There Pele’s fires caught her but did not devour her. Who acts: fires, Pele. 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 88

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There Pele’s fires caught her but did not devour her.

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**Who acts:** fires, Pele · **What happens:** catch, not devour, fire · **To what, where:** torrent

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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 (fires, Pele), 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:pg66516:15:88
# text = There Pele’s fires caught her but did not devour her.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
2	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	devour	devour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | Pele's fires | torrent |  | there |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **devour** | past · do-support | Pele's fires *not said here* | torrent |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 3 | **fire** |  | Pele |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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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