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title: Pele sent increased floods of burning rock upon him. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Pele sent increased floods of burning rock upon him. Who acts: Pele, increased floods. 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 230

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Pele sent increased floods of burning rock upon him.

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**Who acts:** Pele, increased floods · **What happens:** send, increase, burn · **To what, where:** increased floods, rock

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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, increased floods), 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:pg66516:20:230
# text = Pele sent increased floods of burning rock upon him.
1	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	floods	flood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Pele | increased floods |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flood=Theme |
| 2 | **increase** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **burn** | gerund | increased floods *not said here* | rock |  |  |  | upon lava | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rock=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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