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title: When Pele came to that pit she laid out the plan for her abiding hom… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: When Pele came to that pit she laid out the plan for her abiding home, beginning at once to dig up the foundations. Who acts: Pele, plan. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Ai-laau, the Forest Eater, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Ai-laau, the Forest Eater, sentence 32

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When Pele came to that pit she laid out the plan for her abiding home, beginning at once to dig up the foundations.

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**Who acts:** Pele, plan · **What happens:** come, lay out, abide, begin, dig up · **To what, where:** pit, plan, foundations

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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 (Pele, plan), 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:pg66516:4:32
# text = When Pele came to that pit she laid out the plan for her abiding home, beginning at once to dig up the foundations.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	abiding	abide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
15	home	home	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	conj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	foundations	foundation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Pele |  |  | that pit |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to pit=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **lay out** | past | Pele | the plan |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result |
| 3 | **abide** | gerund | the plan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Pele *nmod:poss*; home *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **begin** | gerund | the plan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **dig up** | to-infinitive | the plan *not said here* | the foundations |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foundation=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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