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title: She stamped on the ground and floods of lava broke out, destroying m… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: She stamped on the ground and floods of lava broke out, destroying many of the chiefs as they fled in every direction. Who acts: Pele, floods, taunts, lava. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 47

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She stamped on the ground and floods of lava broke out, destroying many of the chiefs as they fled in every direction.

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**Who acts:** Pele, floods, taunts, lava · **What happens:** stamp, break out, destroy, flee, flood · **To what, where:** ground, many, direction

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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: who acts (Pele, floods, taunts, 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:pg66516:8:47
# text = She stamped on the ground and floods of lava broke out, destroying many of the chiefs as they fled in every direction.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stamped	stamp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	floods	flood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	destroying	destroy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stamp** | past | Pele |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ground=Destination |
| 2 | **break out** | past | floods of lava |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **destroy** | gerund | floods of lava *not said here* | many of the chiefs |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient |
| 4 | **flee** | past | taunts *= taunt* |  |  | every direction |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **flood** |  | lava |  |  |  |  |  | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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