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title: But Pele leaped from the flowing lava and threw her burning arms aro… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: But Pele leaped from the flowing lava and threw her burning arms around the nearest one of her former lovers. 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 75

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But Pele leaped from the flowing lava and threw her burning arms around the nearest one of her former lovers.

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**Who acts:** Pele · **What happens:** leap, flow, throw, burn · **To what, where:** flowing lava, Pele, arms

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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:pg66516:7:75
# text = But Pele leaped from the flowing lava and threw her burning arms around the nearest one of her former lovers.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	leaped	leap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	_
12	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	around	around	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | past | Pele |  |  | the flowing lava |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from lava=Trajectory |
| 2 | **flow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **throw** | past | Pele *not said here* | Pele |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **burn** | gerund | Pele *not said here* | arms |  |  |  | around the nearest one of Pele's former lovers | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=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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