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title: They took their positions near Kilauea and challenged Pele, crying o… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: They took their positions near Kilauea and challenged Pele, crying out: “Where is that strange and wonderful woman?” Who acts: descendants. 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 91

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They took their positions near Kilauea and challenged Pele, crying out: “Where is that strange and wonderful woman?”

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**Who acts:** descendants · **What happens:** take, challenge, cry out, be · **To what, where:** positions, Kilauea, 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 (descendants), 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:pg66516:10:91
# text = They took their positions near Kilauea and challenged Pele, crying out: “Where is that strange and wonderful woman?”
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	positions	position	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	challenged	challenge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | descendants *= descendant* | descendants's positions |  | Kilauea |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent position=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **challenge** | past | descendants *= descendant* *not said here* | Pele |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cry out** *speech: express* | gerund | descendants *= descendant* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | woman *vocative*; strange *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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