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title: At last Pele came to Hawaii and escaped the flood by finding a home… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: At last Pele came to Hawaii and escaped the flood by finding a home in Kilauea. 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 clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 35

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At last Pele came to Hawaii and escaped the flood by finding a home in Kilauea.

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**What happens:** come, escape, find · **To what, where:** Hawaii, last Pele, flood, home, Kilauea

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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: 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:pg66516:5:35
# text = At last Pele came to Hawaii and escaped the flood by finding a home in Kilauea.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  | Hawaii | last Pele |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hawaii=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **escape** | past |  | the flood |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flood=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **find** | gerund |  | a home |  | Kilauea |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Topic |

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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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