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title: “In the very ancient time Mauna Kea threw out vast Pele fires, but l… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: “In the very ancient time Mauna Kea threw out vast Pele fires, but long ago these eruptions have been imprisoned. Who acts: Mauna. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 106

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“In the very ancient time Mauna Kea threw out vast Pele fires, but long ago these eruptions have been imprisoned.

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**Who acts:** Mauna · **What happens:** throw out, imprison · **To what, where:** vast Pele fires, eruptions

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mauna), 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:pg66516:27:106
# text = “In the very ancient time Mauna Kea threw out vast Pele fires, but long ago these eruptions have been imprisoned.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
7	Mauna	Mauna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Kea	Kea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	eruptions	eruption	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw out** *in a quote* | past | Mauna | vast Pele fires |  |  | time |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 2 | **imprison** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | this eruptions |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=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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