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title: Ai-laau was, therefore, the fire-god devouring forests. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Ai-laau was, therefore, the fire-god devouring forests. Who acts: Ai laau, fire god. 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 clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Ai-laau, the Forest Eater, sentence 5

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Ai-laau was, therefore, the fire-god devouring forests.

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**Who acts:** Ai laau, fire god · **What happens:** be, devour · **To what, where:** fire god, forests

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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 (Ai laau, fire god), 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:pg66516:4:5
# text = Ai-laau was, therefore, the fire-god devouring forests.
1	Ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	laau	laau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	devouring	devour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Ai laau | the fire god |  |  |  | therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **devour** | gerund | the fire god *not said here* | forests |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Patient |

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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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