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title: Whenever she became impatient at the delay of the coming of Lohiau,… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Whenever she became impatient at the delay of the coming of Lohiau, she would fling her scorching smoke and foul gas over Hiiaka’s beautiful forests—and sometimes would smite the land with an overflow of burning lava. Who acts: Pele, delay, overflow. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (myt
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 185

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Whenever she became impatient at the delay of the coming of Lohiau, she would fling her scorching smoke and foul gas over Hiiaka’s beautiful forests—and sometimes would smite the land with an overflow of burning lava.

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**Who acts:** Pele, delay, overflow · **What happens:** become, come, fling, scorch, smite, burn · **To what, where:** Lohiau, smoke, beautiful forests, land, lava

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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 (Pele, delay, overflow), 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:pg66516:20:185
# text = Whenever she became impatient at the delay of the coming of Lohiau, she would fling her scorching smoke and foul gas over Hiiaka’s beautiful forests—and sometimes would smite the land with an overflow of burning lava.
1	Whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
4	impatient	impatient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Lohiau	Lohiau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	fling	fling	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	scorching	scorch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	foul	foul	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	32	advmod	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	smite	smite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	overflow	overflow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
39	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	acl	_	_
40	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Pele |  |  |  |  | impatient, whenever *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | the delay *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Lohiau | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of lohiau=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **fling** | would | Pele | Lohiau |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **scorch** | gerund | Pele *not said here* | smoke and foul gas |  | Hiiaka's beautiful forests |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent smoke=Patient |
| 5 | **smite** | would | Pele *not said here* | the land |  |  |  | with a overflow; sometimes *property* | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent land=Patient with overflow=Instrument |
| 6 | **burn** | gerund | a overflow *not said here* | lava |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lava=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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