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title: Some of the lava consisted of Pele’s hair, red hot, yet preserving i… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of the lava consisted of Pele’s hair, red hot, yet preserving its peculiar characteristics.” Who acts: Some. 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 91

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Some of the lava consisted of Pele’s hair, red hot, yet preserving its peculiar characteristics.”

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**Who acts:** Some · **What happens:** consist, preserve · **To what, where:** peculiar characteristics

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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 (Some), 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:pg66516:27:91
# text = Some of the lava consisted of Pele’s hair, red hot, yet preserving its peculiar characteristics.”
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	consisted	consist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	preserving	preserve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	characteristics	characteristic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** | past | Some of the lava |  |  |  |  | of Pele's hair | tree rules |
| 2 | **preserve** | gerund | Some of the lava *not said here* | hair's peculiar characteristics |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent characteristic=Beneficiary |

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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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