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title: Then the awful fiery flood broke from the underworld, and swept down… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the awful fiery flood broke from the underworld, and swept down over Kahuku. Who acts: awful fiery flood. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 63

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Then the awful fiery flood broke from the underworld, and swept down over Kahuku.

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**Who acts:** awful fiery flood · **What happens:** break, sweep down · **To what, where:** Kahuku

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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 (awful fiery flood), 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:pg66516:7:63
# text = Then the awful fiery flood broke from the underworld, and swept down over Kahuku.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	underworld	underworld	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Kahuku	Kahuku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | the awful fiery flood |  |  |  | then | from the underworld | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from underworld=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **sweep down** | past | the awful fiery flood *not said here* |  |  | Kahuku |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over kahuku=Trajectory |

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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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