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title: Sometimes she was beaten back, sometimes her arms were so weary that… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes she was beaten back, sometimes her arms were so weary that she could scarcely move her skirt, but she hurled it over and over against the storm until she drove it deeper into the forest and gained a little time for rest and renewal of strength. Who acts: arms, Hiiaka. A sentence of «Hawaii
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 56

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Sometimes she was beaten back, sometimes her arms were so weary that she could scarcely move her skirt, but she hurled it over and over against the storm until she drove it deeper into the forest and gained a little time for rest and renewal of strength.

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**Who acts:** arms, Hiiaka · **What happens:** beat back, be, move, hurl over, drive, gain · **To what, where:** Hiiaka, skirt, storm, strength

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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 (arms, Hiiaka), 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:pg66516:16:56
# text = Sometimes she was beaten back, sometimes her arms were so weary that she could scarcely move her skirt, but she hurled it over and over against the storm until she drove it deeper into the forest and gained a little time for rest and renewal of strength.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	skirt	skirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	hurled	hurl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	over	over	ADV	RB	_	25	conj	_	_
28	against	against	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
31	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	deeper	deep	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	33	advmod	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	renewal	renewal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat back** | past · passive |  | Hiiaka |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | Hiiaka's arms |  |  |  |  | sometimes, weary *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **move** | could | Hiiaka | Hiiaka's skirt |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skirt=Theme |
| 4 | **hurl over** | past | Hiiaka | skirt |  | the storm |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme against storm=Destination |
| 5 | **drive** | past | Hiiaka | skirt |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location |
| 6 | **gain** | past | Hiiaka *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 7 | **renew** |  |  | strength |  |  |  |  | nom renewal «act 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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