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title: The strong winds blew and the storm poured upon her, while the drago… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The strong winds blew and the storm poured upon her, while the dragons struck her to beat her down. Who acts: strong winds, storm, dragons. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 134

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The strong winds blew and the storm poured upon her, while the dragons struck her to beat her down.

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**Who acts:** strong winds, storm, dragons · **What happens:** blow, pour, strike, beat down · **To what, where:** storm

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strong winds, storm, dragons), 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:pg66516:20:134
# text = The strong winds blew and the storm poured upon her, while the dragons struck her to beat her down.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | the strong winds |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **pour** | past | the storm |  |  |  |  | upon omao | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 3 | **strike** | past | the dragons | storm |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument |
| 4 | **beat down** | to-infinitive | the dragons *not said here* | storm |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme |

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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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