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title: Under the smoke cloud of the pit lies the always active lake of fire… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Under the smoke cloud of the pit lies the always active lake of fire, Ka-Lua Pele (The Pit of Pele), the traditional home of the goddess Pele, now called Halemaumau (House fixed or continuing). A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hawaiian Volcanoes, with it
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 39

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Under the smoke cloud of the pit lies the always active lake of fire, Ka-Lua Pele (The Pit of Pele), the traditional home of the goddess Pele, now called Halemaumau (House fixed or continuing).

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**What happens:** lie, call, fix, continue, cloud · **To what, where:** active lake, smoke cloud, House, pit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hawaiian Volcanoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66516:26:39
# text = Under the smoke cloud of the pit lies the always active lake of fire, Ka-Lua Pele (The Pit of Pele), the traditional home of the goddess Pele, now called Halemaumau (House fixed or continuing).
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
11	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Lua	Lua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
19	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
36	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
37	Halemaumau	Halemaumau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	xcomp	_	_
38	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	House	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
40	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl	_	_
41	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	continuing	continue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present |  | the active lake of fire  Ka Lua |  | the smoke cloud of the pit |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lake=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  |  |  |  | now | Halemaumau *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fix** | participle |  | House *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **continue** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **cloud** |  |  | the pit |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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