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title: He called also for the strong winds to bend down trees and smite his… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: He called also for the strong winds to bend down trees and smite his enemy, and lie in tangled masses in her path. Who acts: body. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 52

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He called also for the strong winds to bend down trees and smite his enemy, and lie in tangled masses in her path.

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**Who acts:** body · **What happens:** call, bend down, smite, lie, tangle · **To what, where:** trees, enemy, tangled masses · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (body), 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:pg66516:16:52
# text = He called also for the strong winds to bend down trees and smite his enemy, and lie in tangled masses in her path.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	bend	bend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	smite	smite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	tangled	tangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	masses	mass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | body |  |  |  |  | for the strong winds | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for wind=Recipient |
| 2 | **bend down** | to-infinitive | body *not said here* | trees |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent tree=Material |
| 3 | **smite** | infinitive | body *not said here* | body's enemy |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus enemy=Experiencer |
| 4 | **lie** | infinitive | body *not said here* |  |  | tangled masses in rain's path |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mass=Location |
| 5 | **tangle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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