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title: Other legends say he went to Kauai and there gathered a company of t… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Other legends say he went to Kauai and there gathered a company of the most powerful priests to return to Hawaii for the destruction of Pele and her volcanic fires. Who acts: Other legends, wali, Pele. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali,
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 88

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Other legends say he went to Kauai and there gathered a company of the most powerful priests to return to Hawaii for the destruction of Pele and her volcanic fires.

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**Who acts:** Other legends, wali, Pele · **What happens:** say, go, gather, return, destroy, fire · **To what, where:** Kauai, company, Hawaii, Pele · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Other legends, wali, Pele), 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:pg66516:10:88
# text = Other legends say he went to Kauai and there gathered a company of the most powerful priests to return to Hawaii for the destruction of Pele and her volcanic fires.
1	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	16	advmod	_	_
16	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Other legends |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | past | wali |  |  | Kauai |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to kauai=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **gather** | past | wali *not said here* | a company of the powerful priests |  | there |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme |
| 4 | **return** | to-infinitive | wali *not said here* |  | Hawaii |  |  | for the destruction of Pele and Pele's volcanic fires | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to hawaii=Result |
| 5 | **destroy** |  |  | Pele and Pele's volcanic fires |  |  |  |  | nom destruction «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **fire** |  | Pele |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event 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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