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title: As the smoke rose to the clouds, the angry watching one rushed from… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: As the smoke rose to the clouds, the angry watching one rushed from Nuu-mea-lani and tried to slay the family. Who acts: smoke. 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 69

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As the smoke rose to the clouds, the angry watching one rushed from Nuu-mea-lani and tried to slay the family.

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**Who acts:** smoke · **What happens:** rise, watch, rush, try, slay · **To what, where:** clouds, one, Nuu mea lani, family

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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 (smoke), 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:pg66516:5:69
# text = As the smoke rose to the clouds, the angry watching one rushed from Nuu-mea-lani and tried to slay the family.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
13	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	Nuu	Nuu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	mea	mea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	lani	lani	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the smoke |  |  | the clouds |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to cloud=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **watch** | gerund | the smoke *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 3 | **rush** | participle |  |  |  | Nuu mea lani |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from lani=Trajectory |
| 4 | **try** | past | the smoke *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **slay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the smoke *not said here* | the family |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=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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