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title: Sometimes she would look down over that part of Puna where Hopoe dwe… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes she would look down over that part of Puna where Hopoe dwelt and hurl spurts of lava toward her home. Who acts: Pele, Hopoe, lava. 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 186

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Sometimes she would look down over that part of Puna where Hopoe dwelt and hurl spurts of lava toward her home.

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**Who acts:** Pele, Hopoe, lava · **What happens:** look down, dwell, hurl, spurt · **To what, where:** spurts

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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, Hopoe, lava), 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:pg66516:20:186
# text = Sometimes she would look down over that part of Puna where Hopoe dwelt and hurl spurts of lava toward her home.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Puna	Puna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
12	Hopoe	Hopoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	hurl	hurl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	spurts	spurt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look down** | would | Pele |  |  |  |  | over that part of Puna; down, sometimes *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over part=Theme |
| 2 | **dwell** | past | Hopoe |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hurl** | present | Hopoe *not said here* | spurts of lava |  |  |  | toward Pele's home | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spurt=Theme |
| 4 | **spurt** |  | lava |  |  |  |  |  | nom spurt «event intransitive»: of=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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