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title: Then she saw one of the women of the pit slowly changing into an old… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she saw one of the women of the pit slowly changing into an old woman lying on a mat of fire apart from the others. Who acts: woman, one. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 62

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Then she saw one of the women of the pit slowly changing into an old woman lying on a mat of fire apart from the others.

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**Who acts:** woman, one · **What happens:** see, change, lie · **To what, where:** one, mat

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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 (woman, one), 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:pg66516:17:62
# text = Then she saw one of the women of the pit slowly changing into an old woman lying on a mat of fire apart from the others.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	changing	change	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	mat	mat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | woman | one of the women of the pit |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | gerund | one of the women of the pit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into a old woman *result*; slowly *property* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into woman=Result |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | one of the women of the pit *not said here* |  |  | a mat of fire |  | from the others; apart *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mat=Location |

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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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