--- title: She chased the chief to the sea, caught him on the beach, heaped up… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics description: She chased the chief to the sea, caught him on the beach, heaped up a great mound of broken lava over him, and poured her lava flood around him and beyond him far out into the ocean. Who acts: anger, beach. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. 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D. Westervelt, Pele and the Chiefs of Puna. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anger, beach), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66516:8:13 # text = She chased the chief to the sea, caught him on the beach, heaped up a great mound of broken lava over him, and poured her lava flood around him and beyond him far out into the ocean. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 chased chase VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 chief chief NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 heaped heap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 mound mound NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 lava lava NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 over over ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 poured pour VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 lava lava NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 flood flood NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 around around ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 beyond beyond ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 conj _ _ 36 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 37 advmod _ _ 37 out out ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 38 into into ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chase** | past | anger | the chief | | the sea | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent chief=Theme to sea=Trajectory | | 2 | **catch** | past | anger *not said here* | love | | the beach | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **heap up** | participle | the beach *not said here* | a great mound of broken lava over love | | | | | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mound=Theme | | 4 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **pour** | past | | anger's lava flood | | the ocean | | around love; out *property* | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent flood=Theme into ocean=Destination | | 6 | **flood** | | anger | | | | | | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **Text:** «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. 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