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title: The floods of lava, obeying the commands of the goddess, spread out… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The floods of lava, obeying the commands of the goddess, spread out over all the land of the chiefs so that from the mountain to the sea the luxuriant lands became desolate. Who acts: luxuriant lands, lava. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele,
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 72

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The floods of lava, obeying the commands of the goddess, spread out over all the land of the chiefs so that from the mountain to the sea the luxuriant lands became desolate.

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**Who acts:** luxuriant lands, lava · **What happens:** obey, spread out, become, desolate, flood, command · **To what, where:** commands, floods, land, goddess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (luxuriant lands, lava), 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:pg66516:7:72
# text = The floods of lava, obeying the commands of the goddess, spread out over all the land of the chiefs so that from the mountain to the sea the luxuriant lands became desolate.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	floods	flood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	obeying	obey	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	commands	command	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	luxuriant	luxuriant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
34	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obey** | gerund |  | the commands of the goddess |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme |
| 2 | **spread out** | participle · passive |  | the floods of lava |  | all land of the chiefs |  | so that; from the mountain to the sea | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over land=Destination |
| 3 | **become** | past | the luxuriant lands |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **desolate** | infinitive | the luxuriant lands *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **flood** |  | lava |  |  |  |  |  | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **command** |  |  | the goddess |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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