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title: Sometime during this adventure of Kama-puaa in the domains of Pele,… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometime during this adventure of Kama-puaa in the domains of Pele, the islands were divided between the two demi-gods, and an oath of divine solemnity was taken by them. Who acts: god. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa, with its depend
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 114

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Sometime during this adventure of Kama-puaa in the domains of Pele, the islands were divided between the two demi-gods, and an oath of divine solemnity was taken by them.

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**Who acts:** god · **What happens:** divide, take, adventure · **To what, where:** adventure, oath, Kama puaa

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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 (god), 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:pg66516:11:114
# text = Sometime during this adventure of Kama-puaa in the domains of Pele, the islands were divided between the two demi-gods, and an oath of divine solemnity was taken by them.
1	Sometime	sometime	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
2	during	during	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Kama	Kama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	puaa	puaa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	domains	domain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	between	between	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
22	demi	demi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	divine	divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	solemnity	solemnity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** | past · passive |  | this adventure of Kama puaa in the domains of Pele |  |  |  | between the two demi gods; the islands *nsubj:pass* | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past · passive | god | a oath of divine solemnity |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **adventure** |  |  | Kama puaa in the domains of Pele |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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