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title: When her determination was seen to be immovable, some of the priests… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: When her determination was seen to be immovable, some of the priests of Pele became bitterly angry and in their rage prophesied most awful results. Who acts: determination, some, opposition, Priests. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele, w
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 41

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When her determination was seen to be immovable, some of the priests of Pele became bitterly angry and in their rage prophesied most awful results.

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**Who acts:** determination, some, opposition, Priests · **What happens:** see, be, become, prophesy, determine, rage · **To what, where:** determination, awful results, rage

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (determination, some, opposition, Priests), 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:pg66516:23:41
# text = When her determination was seen to be immovable, some of the priests of Pele became bitterly angry and in their rage prophesied most awful results.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	determination	determination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	immovable	immovable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
17	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
23	prophesied	prophesy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	25	advmod	_	_
25	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · passive |  | opposition's determination |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | opposition's determination *not said here* |  |  |  |  | immovable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | past | some of the priests of Pele |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **prophesy** | past | some of the priests of Pele *not said here* | awful results |  | Priests's rage |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Theme |
| 5 | **determine** |  | opposition |  |  |  |  |  | nom determination «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **rage** |  | Priests *= priest* |  |  |  |  |  | nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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