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title: To that fish he gave the tough skin which he assumed when roaming ov… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: To that fish he gave the tough skin which he assumed when roaming over the islands as a hog. Who acts: puaa, tough skin. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 110

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To that fish he gave the tough skin which he assumed when roaming over the islands as a hog.

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**Who acts:** puaa, tough skin · **What happens:** give, assume, roam · **To what, where:** tough skin, fish, islands

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (puaa, tough skin), 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:pg66516:11:110
# text = To that fish he gave the tough skin which he assumed when roaming over the islands as a hog.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	tough	tough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	assumed	assume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
13	roaming	roam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hog	hog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	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 | **give** | past | puaa | the tough skin | that fish |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent skin=Theme to fish=Recipient |
| 2 | **assume** | past | the tough skin |  |  |  |  | puaa *nsubj* | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **roam** | gerund | the tough skin *not said here* |  |  | the islands |  | as a hog | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over island=Trajectory |

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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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