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title: Whenever Pele hurled her fiery darts, the owl swiftly thrust his hea… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Whenever Pele hurled her fiery darts, the owl swiftly thrust his head from side to side, catching them in his beak, and with a shake of the head tossing them off to the ground. Who acts: Pele, owl, shake. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Owl
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 40

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Whenever Pele hurled her fiery darts, the owl swiftly thrust his head from side to side, catching them in his beak, and with a shake of the head tossing them off to the ground.

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**Who acts:** Pele, owl, shake · **What happens:** hurl, thrust, catch, toss off · **To what, where:** fiery darts, head, side, darts, beak, ground

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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 (Pele, owl, shake), 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:pg66516:6:40
# text = Whenever Pele hurled her fiery darts, the owl swiftly thrust his head from side to side, catching them in his beak, and with a shake of the head tossing them off to the ground.
1	Whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	3	advmod	_	_
2	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hurled	hurl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	darts	dart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	thrust	thrust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	catching	catch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	shake	shake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	tossing	toss	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	off	off	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	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 | **hurl** | past | Pele | owl's fiery darts |  |  |  | a shake of the head *parataxis*; whenever *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dart=Theme |
| 2 | **thrust** | past | the owl | Pele's head |  | side to side |  | swiftly *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent head=Theme from side=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **catch** | gerund | the owl *not said here* | darts *= dart* |  | Pele's beak |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **toss off** | gerund | a shake of the head *not said here* | darts *= dart* | the ground |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Patient to ground=Recipient |

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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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