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title: Pele became very angry as she saw him fleeing from her over the lake… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Pele became very angry as she saw him fleeing from her over the lake of fire, so she called to her fire-servants, the au-makuas, or ghost-gods, of the crater, and they hurled other fire-waves across the lake against the one the chief was riding. Who acts: Pele, cone, makuas, chief. A sentence of «Ha
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 93

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Pele became very angry as she saw him fleeing from her over the lake of fire, so she called to her fire-servants, the au-makuas, or ghost-gods, of the crater, and they hurled other fire-waves across the lake against the one the chief was riding.

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**Who acts:** Pele, cone, makuas, chief · **What happens:** become, see, flee, call, hurl, ride · **To what, where:** cone, lake, ghost gods, fire servants, other fire waves, one · **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 (Pele, cone, makuas, chief), 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:pg66516:8:93
# text = Pele became very angry as she saw him fleeing from her over the lake of fire, so she called to her fire-servants, the au-makuas, or ghost-gods, of the crater, and they hurled other fire-waves across the lake against the one the chief was riding.
1	Pele	pele	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	fleeing	flee	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	au	au	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	makuas	makua	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	crater	crater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	hurled	hurl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
44	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
45	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
48	across	across	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
51	against	against	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	_
56	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	53	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Pele |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | past | Pele | cone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **flee** | gerund | cone *not said here* |  |  | the lake of fire |  | from Pele | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from she=Initial\_Location over lake=Destination |
| 4 | **call** | past | Pele | ghost gods | Pele's fire servants and the au makuas |  |  | of the crater | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient |
| 5 | **hurl** | past | makuas *= makua* | other fire waves |  | the lake against the one |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Theme |
| 6 | **ride** | past · progressive | the chief | the one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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