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title: The chiefs tried to flee toward the north, but Pele hurled the fierc… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The chiefs tried to flee toward the north, but Pele hurled the fiercest torrents beyond them to turn them back. Who acts: chiefs, Pele. 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 65

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The chiefs tried to flee toward the north, but Pele hurled the fiercest torrents beyond them to turn them back.

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**Who acts:** chiefs, Pele · **What happens:** try, flee, hurl, turn back · **To what, where:** north, fiercest torrents, chiefs

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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 (chiefs, 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:pg66516:7:65
# text = The chiefs tried to flee toward the north, but Pele hurled the fiercest torrents beyond them to turn them back.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	flee	flee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	hurled	hurl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	fiercest	fierce	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	torrents	torrent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | the chiefs |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **flee** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the chiefs *not said here* |  |  | the north |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme toward north=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **hurl** | past | Pele | the fiercest torrents |  |  |  | beyond chiefs *= chief* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent torrent=Theme beyond they=Destination |
| 4 | **turn back** | to-infinitive | Pele *not said here* | chiefs *= chief* |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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