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title: Then they saw that this was not an ordinary forest fire but a Pele (… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they saw that this was not an ordinary forest fire but a Pele (an eruption). Who acts: people, this. 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 123

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Then they saw that this was not an ordinary forest fire but a Pele (an eruption).

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**Who acts:** people, this · **What happens:** see, not be · **To what, where:** ordinary forest fire · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (people, this), 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:pg66516:27:123
# text = Then they saw that this was not an ordinary forest fire but a Pele (an eruption).
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	eruption	eruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | people |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past | this | a ordinary forest fire but a Pele |  |  |  | a Pele *conj* | tree rules |

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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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