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description: As he had fought Hiiaka with the cold forest winds, so Pele fought him with the storms from the pit of fire. Who acts: thunderstorm, Pele. 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 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 89

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As he had fought Hiiaka with the cold forest winds, so Pele fought him with the storms from the pit of fire.

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**Who acts:** thunderstorm, Pele · **What happens:** fight · **To what, where:** Hiiaka, thunderstorm

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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 (thunderstorm, 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:pg66516:16:89
# text = As he had fought Hiiaka with the cold forest winds, so Pele fought him with the storms from the pit of fire.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fought	fight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past · perfect | thunderstorm | Hiiaka |  |  |  | with the cold forest winds | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hiiaka=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **fight** | past | Pele | thunderstorm |  |  |  | with the storms from the pit of fire | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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