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title: This pig was so important that its name has been made prominent in a… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: This pig was so important that its name has been made prominent in all the Kaha-wali legends. Who acts: pig. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 28

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This pig was so important that its name has been made prominent in all the Kaha-wali legends.

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**Who acts:** pig · **What happens:** be, make, name · **To what, where:** name

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pig), 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:pg66516:10:28
# text = This pig was so important that its name has been made prominent in all the Kaha-wali legends.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
12	prominent	prominent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	Kaha	Kaha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	wali	wali	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this pig |  |  |  |  | important *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present · perfect · passive |  | pig's name |  |  |  | prominent *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **name** |  | pig |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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