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title: In a moment Pele seized him and called for another outburst of lava,… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: In a moment Pele seized him and called for another outburst of lava, which rose up rapidly around them. Who acts: Pele, lava. 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 79

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In a moment Pele seized him and called for another outburst of lava, which rose up rapidly around them.

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**Who acts:** Pele, lava · **What happens:** seize, call, rise up · **To what, where:** gush · **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 (Pele, 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:pg66516:7:79
# text = In a moment Pele seized him and called for another outburst of lava, which rose up rapidly around them.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	outburst	outburst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	around	around	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | Pele | gush |  |  | moment |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | past | Pele *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for another outburst of lava | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for outburst=Recipient |
| 3 | **rise up** | past | lava |  |  |  |  | around fear; rapidly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around they=Location |

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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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