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title: The visitors from Kauai entered heartily into the sports of the peop… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The visitors from Kauai entered heartily into the sports of the people and after a time climbed some lava hills and began holua races. Who acts: visitors, people. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 33

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The visitors from Kauai entered heartily into the sports of the people and after a time climbed some lava hills and began holua races.

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**Who acts:** visitors, people · **What happens:** enter, climb, begin, sport · **To what, where:** sports, lava hills, holua races

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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 (visitors, people), 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:pg66516:10:33
# text = The visitors from Kauai entered heartily into the sports of the people and after a time climbed some lava hills and began holua races.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	heartily	heartily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
17	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
19	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	holua	holua	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | the visitors from Kauai |  |  | the sports of the people |  | heartily *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into sport=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **climb** | past | the visitors from Kauai *not said here* | some lava hills |  |  | time |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location hill=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the visitors from Kauai *not said here* | holua races |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality |
| 4 | **sport** |  | the people |  |  |  |  |  | nom sport «act 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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