--- title: The brother of Pele and his servants awoke and followed, but he fled… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics description: The brother of Pele and his servants awoke and followed, but he fled through the heavens to the place where the ghosts of his brothers lay in the sunken ship by the home of the goddess of the sea. Who acts: brother, watchman, ghosts. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, T --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/4/167/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Historical Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/) / [The Water of Life \[1\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/4/) / 167 # Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life \[1\], sentence 167 The brother of Pele and his servants awoke and followed, but he fled through the heavens to the place where the ghosts of his brothers lay in the sunken ship by the home of the goddess of the sea. **Who acts:** brother, watchman, ghosts · **What happens:** awake, follow, flee, lay, ghost · **To what, where:** heavens, sunken ship, brothers This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Water of Life \[1\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, watchman, ghosts), 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:pg66357:4:167 # text = The brother of Pele and his servants awoke and followed, but he fled through the heavens to the place where the ghosts of his brothers lay in the sunken ship by the home of the goddess of the sea. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Pele Pele PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 8 awoke awake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 fled flee VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 15 through through ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 heavens heaven NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 21 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 27 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 ghosts ghost NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 27 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 sunken sunken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 goddess goddess NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **awake** | past | the brother of Pele and watchman's servants | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **follow** | past | the brother of Pele and watchman's servants *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **flee** | past | watchman | | | the heavens | | to the place | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through heaven=Initial\_Location to place=Destination | | 4 | **lay** | present | the ghosts of watchman's brothers | | | the sunken ship by the home of the goddess of the sea | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in ship=Destination | | 5 | **ghost** | | | watchman's brothers | | | | | nom ghost «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 166](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/4/166/) - next →: [sentence 168](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/4/168/) - ↑ back to [The Water of Life \[1\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/4/)