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title: When the winds lifted the clouds, rolling them away, he saw that all… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: When the winds lifted the clouds, rolling them away, he saw that all his fertile plain was black with lava, still burning and pouring out constantly volumes of dense smoke. Who acts: winds, prophet, fertile plain. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele an
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 79

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When the winds lifted the clouds, rolling them away, he saw that all his fertile plain was black with lava, still burning and pouring out constantly volumes of dense smoke.

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**Who acts:** winds, prophet, fertile plain · **What happens:** lift, roll away, see, be, burn, pour out · **To what, where:** clouds, volumes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (winds, prophet, fertile plain), 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:pg66516:8:79
# text = When the winds lifted the clouds, rolling them away, he saw that all his fertile plain was black with lava, still burning and pouring out constantly volumes of dense smoke.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	fertile	fertile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	constantly	constantly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	volumes	volume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	dense	dense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | past | the winds | the clouds |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme |
| 2 | **roll away** | gerund | the winds *not said here* | clouds *= cloud* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | past | prophet |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | prophet's fertile plain |  |  |  |  | with lava; black *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **burn** | gerund | prophet *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **pour out** | gerund | prophet *not said here* | volumes of dense smoke |  |  |  | constantly *property* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volume=Patient |

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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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