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title: Wherever they landed she struck the earth, thus opening a crater in… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherever they landed she struck the earth, thus opening a crater in which volcanic fires burned. Who acts: ka, Pele, volcanic fires. 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 68

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Wherever they landed she struck the earth, thus opening a crater in which volcanic fires burned.

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**Who acts:** ka, Pele, volcanic fires · **What happens:** land, strike, open, burn · **To what, where:** earth, crater

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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 (ka, Pele, volcanic fires), 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:pg66516:5:68
# text = Wherever they landed she struck the earth, thus opening a crater in which volcanic fires burned.
1	Wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	crater	crater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
15	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | past | ka |  |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **strike** | past | Pele | the earth |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient |
| 3 | **open** | gerund | ka *not said here* | a crater |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crater=Theme |
| 4 | **burn** | past | volcanic fires |  |  | a crater |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=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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