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title: Soon out of the clear sky above the conflict appeared Pele hurling a… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon out of the clear sky above the conflict appeared Pele hurling a fierce bolt of lightning at the giant. Who acts: lightning. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 31

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Soon out of the clear sky above the conflict appeared Pele hurling a fierce bolt of lightning at the giant.

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**Who acts:** lightning · **What happens:** appear, hurl, bolt · **To what, where:** Pele, clear sky, fierce bolt

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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 (lightning), 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:pg66516:6:31
# text = Soon out of the clear sky above the conflict appeared Pele hurling a fierce bolt of lightning at the giant.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
7	above	above	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	hurling	hurl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bolt	bolt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past |  | Pele |  | the clear sky above the conflict |  | soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pele=Theme |
| 2 | **hurl** | gerund |  | a fierce bolt of lightning |  |  |  | at the giant | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bolt=Theme at giant=Destination |
| 3 | **bolt** |  | lightning |  |  |  |  |  | nom bolt «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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