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title: She dug along the lowlands of Kauai, but water drowned the fires she… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: She dug along the lowlands of Kauai, but water drowned the fires she kindled, so she went from island to island but could only dig along the beach near the sea. Who acts: Pa, water. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii, with its depen
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 28

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She dug along the lowlands of Kauai, but water drowned the fires she kindled, so she went from island to island but could only dig along the beach near the sea.

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**Who acts:** Pa, water · **What happens:** dig, drown, kindle, go · **To what, where:** lowlands, fires, island, sea

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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 (Pa, water), 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:pg66516:5:28
# text = She dug along the lowlands of Kauai, but water drowned the fires she kindled, so she went from island to island but could only dig along the beach near the sea.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dug	dig	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	along	along	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lowlands	lowland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	drowned	drown	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	kindled	kindle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
28	along	along	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	near	near	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | past | Pa |  |  | the lowlands of Kauai |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent along lowland=Location |
| 2 | **drown** | past | water | the fires |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Patient |
| 3 | **kindle** | past | Pa | the fires *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | past | Pa |  |  | island |  | to island | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from island=Initial\_Location to island=Destination |
| 5 | **dig** | could | Pa *not said here* |  |  | the sea |  | along the beach | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent along beach=Location |

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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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