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title: At last the young men became suspicious of their companion, her love… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: At last the young men became suspicious of their companion, her love was so fitful and capricious, sometimes burning with a raging fire toward her friends and sometimes filled with hot anger on very slight provocation. Who acts: last young men, love, Pele. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoe
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 44

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At last the young men became suspicious of their companion, her love was so fitful and capricious, sometimes burning with a raging fire toward her friends and sometimes filled with hot anger on very slight provocation.

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**Who acts:** last young men, love, Pele · **What happens:** become, be, burn, rage, fill, love

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last young men, love, 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:pg66516:7:44
# text = At last the young men became suspicious of their companion, her love was so fitful and capricious, sometimes burning with a raging fire toward her friends and sometimes filled with hot anger on very slight provocation.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	fitful	fitful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	capricious	capricious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
21	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	advcl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	raging	rage	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
25	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	31	advmod	_	_
31	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	very	very	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	slight	slight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	provocation	provocation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the last young men |  |  |  |  | suspicious *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | Pele's love |  |  |  |  | fitful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Pele's love *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **burn** | gerund | Pele's love *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a raging fire toward Pele's friends; sometimes *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fire=Theme |
| 5 | **rage** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **fill** | participle | Pele's love *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with hot anger on slight provocation; sometimes *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with anger=Instrument |
| 7 | **love** |  | Pele |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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