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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 3

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It did not become an open conflict immediately, but Koa was filled with such deep hatred that he was ready to employ any means to destroy his enemy.

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**Who acts:** quarrel, land, any · **What happens:** not become, fill, be, employ, mean, destroy · **To what, where:** open conflict, Koa, such deep hatred, enemy

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Owl Ghost-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quarrel, land, any), 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:pg66516:6:3
# text = It did not become an open conflict immediately, but Koa was filled with such deep hatred that he was ready to employ any means to destroy his enemy.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
8	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	Koa	Koa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hatred	hatred	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	employ	employ	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	nsubj	_	_
25	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **become** | past · do-support | quarrel | a open conflict |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **fill** | past · passive |  | Koa |  |  |  | with such deep hatred | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with hatred=Instrument |
| 3 | **is** | past | land | such deep hatred *not said here* |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **employ** | to-infinitive | land *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **mean** | present | any |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **destroy** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | any *not said here* | land's enemy |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=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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