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title: They served their goddess sister, caring for her fires and pouring o… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: They served their goddess sister, caring for her fires and pouring out the destructive rivers of lava at her commands. Who acts: fires, sister. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 102

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They served their goddess sister, caring for her fires and pouring out the destructive rivers of lava at her commands.

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**Who acts:** fires, sister · **What happens:** serve, care, pour out, fire, command · **To what, where:** goddess sister, destructive rivers, commands · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fires, sister), 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:pg66516:5:102
# text = They served their goddess sister, caring for her fires and pouring out the destructive rivers of lava at her commands.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	caring	care	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	destructive	destructive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	commands	command	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | past | fires *= fire* |  | fires's goddess sister |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Attribute |
| 2 | **care** | gerund | fires *= fire* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for sister's fires | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for fire=Theme |
| 3 | **pour out** | gerund | fires *= fire* *not said here* | the destructive rivers of lava |  | sister's commands |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient |
| 4 | **fire** |  | sister |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **command** |  | sister |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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