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title: These priests who were also of the rank of chiefs were all killed by… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: These priests who were also of the rank of chiefs were all killed by Pele except Kaha-wali, who escaped to Oahu.— Who acts: priests, Pele, Kaha wali. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 98

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These priests who were also of the rank of chiefs were all killed by Pele except Kaha-wali, who escaped to Oahu.—

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**Who acts:** priests, Pele, Kaha wali · **What happens:** be, kill, escape · **To what, where:** priests, Oahu

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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 (priests, Pele, Kaha wali), 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:pg66516:10:98
# text = These priests who were also of the rank of chiefs were all killed by Pele except Kaha-wali, who escaped to Oahu.—
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl:relcl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	except	except	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	Kaha	Kaha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	wali	wali	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this priests |  |  |  |  | of the rank; of chiefs | tree rules |
| 2 | **kill** | past · passive | Pele | this priests |  |  |  | except Kaha wali; all *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **escape** | past | Kaha wali |  |  | Oahu |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to oahu=Initial\_Location |

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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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