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title: Pele had struck her Paoa into the earth, dug a deep pit, and thrown… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Pele had struck her Paoa into the earth, dug a deep pit, and thrown up a large hill known to this day as the Puu-o-Pele (The hill of Pele). Who acts: Pele. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 74

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Pele had struck her Paoa into the earth, dug a deep pit, and thrown up a large hill known to this day as the Puu-o-Pele (The hill of Pele).

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**Who acts:** Pele · **What happens:** strike, dig, throw up, know · **To what, where:** Paoa, earth, deep pit, large hill

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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 (Pele), 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:pg66516:5:74
# text = Pele had struck her Paoa into the earth, dug a deep pit, and thrown up a large hill known to this day as the Puu-o-Pele (The hill of Pele).
1	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Paoa	Paoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	dug	dig	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
27	Puu	Puu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	31	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past · perfect | Pele | Pele's Paoa |  |  |  | into the earth *result* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent paoa=Patient into earth=Result |
| 2 | **dig** | past | Pele *not said here* | a deep pit |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pit=Theme |
| 3 | **throw up** | participle | Pele *not said here* | a large hill |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hill=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | participle |  | a large hill *not said here* |  |  | day | as the Puu Pele | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as pele=Attribute |

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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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