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title: But in a moment there was a rush upward of a fountain of lava and hu… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: But in a moment there was a rush upward of a fountain of lava and hurled up with it she saw the body of the little black pig tossing in the changing jets of fire. Who acts: rush upward, woman, little black pig. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Hiiaka
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 58

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But in a moment there was a rush upward of a fountain of lava and hurled up with it she saw the body of the little black pig tossing in the changing jets of fire.

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**Who acts:** rush upward, woman, little black pig · **What happens:** be, hurl up, see, toss, change · **To what, where:** body, changing jets

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rush upward, woman, little black pig), 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:pg66516:17:58
# text = But in a moment there was a rush upward of a fountain of lava and hurled up with it she saw the body of the little black pig tossing in the changing jets of fire.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	rush	rush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	upward	upward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	hurled	hurl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
29	tossing	toss	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	changing	change	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	amod	_	_
33	jets	jet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a rush upward of a fountain of lava |  |  | there | moment |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hurl up** | participle | a rush upward of a fountain of lava *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with upward | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | past | woman | the body of the little black pig |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer body=Stimulus |
| 4 | **toss** | gerund | the little black pig *not said here* |  |  | the changing jets of fire |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in jet=Destination |
| 5 | **change** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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