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title: Then followed taunts and angry words and the sudden absolute loss of… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 46

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Then followed taunts and angry words and the sudden absolute loss of all self-control on the part of Pele.

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**What happens:** follow · **To what, where:** taunts

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. 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: 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:pg66516:8:46
# text = Then followed taunts and angry words and the sudden absolute loss of all self-control on the part of Pele.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	taunts	taunt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	absolute	absolute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
14	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past |  | taunts and angry words and the sudden absolute loss of all self control on the part of Pele |  |  | then |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taunt=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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