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title: It spread over the fertile fields, and the natives feared him as the… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: It spread over the fertile fields, and the natives feared him as the destroyer giving no thought to the final good. Who acts: fire, natives, destroyer. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Ai-laau, the Forest Eater, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Ai-laau, the Forest Eater, sentence 17

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It spread over the fertile fields, and the natives feared him as the destroyer giving no thought to the final good.

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**Who acts:** fire, natives, destroyer · **What happens:** spread, fear, give · **To what, where:** fertile fields, laau, thought, final good

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Ai-laau, the Forest Eater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, natives, destroyer), 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:pg66516:4:17
# text = It spread over the fertile fields, and the natives feared him as the destroyer giving no thought to the final good.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fertile	fertile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	natives	native	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	destroyer	destroyer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past | fire |  |  | the fertile fields |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over field=Location |
| 2 | **fear** | past | the natives | laau |  |  |  | as the destroyer | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **give** | gerund | the destroyer *not said here* | no thought | the final good |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thought=Theme to good=Recipient |

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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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