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title: Shrieking like fierce, whistling winds, tearing her hair and throwin… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Shrieking like fierce, whistling winds, tearing her hair and throwing it away in bunches, Pele sped after the chiefs. Who acts: 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 71

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Shrieking like fierce, whistling winds, tearing her hair and throwing it away in bunches, Pele sped after the chiefs.

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**Who acts:** Pele · **What happens:** shriek, whistle, tear, throw away, speed · **To what, where:** winds, hair, bunches

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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 (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:pg66516:7:71
# text = Shrieking like fierce, whistling winds, tearing her hair and throwing it away in bunches, Pele sped after the chiefs.
1	Shrieking	shriek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	whistling	whistle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
6	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	tearing	tear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	bunches	bunch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
18	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sped	speed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shriek** | gerund | Pele *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like fierce | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **whistle** | gerund | Pele *not said here* | winds |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Topic |
| 3 | **tear** | gerund | Pele *not said here* | Pele's hair |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location hair=Theme |
| 4 | **throw away** | gerund | Pele *not said here* | hair |  | bunches |  | away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bunch=Destination |
| 5 | **speed** | past | Pele |  |  |  | after the chiefs |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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