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title: They set apart a large portion of the island of Hawaii for Pele, and… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: They set apart a large portion of the island of Hawaii for Pele, and the eastern shore from Hilo to Kohala and all the islands northwest of Hawaii as the kingdom over which Kama-puaa might establish rulers. Who acts: god, Kama puaa. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 115

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They set apart a large portion of the island of Hawaii for Pele, and the eastern shore from Hilo to Kohala and all the islands northwest of Hawaii as the kingdom over which Kama-puaa might establish rulers.

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**Who acts:** god, Kama puaa · **What happens:** set apart, establish · **To what, where:** large portion, rulers, kingdom

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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, Kama puaa), 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:pg66516:11:115
# text = They set apart a large portion of the island of Hawaii for Pele, and the eastern shore from Hilo to Kohala and all the islands northwest of Hawaii as the kingdom over which Kama-puaa might establish rulers.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Hilo	Hilo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Kohala	Kohala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	compound	_	_
27	northwest	northwest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	obl	_	_
35	Kama	Kama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	puaa	puaa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	establish	establish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl:relcl	_	_
40	rulers	ruler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set apart** | past | god | a large portion of the island of Hawaii for Pele |  |  |  | the eastern shore from Hilo to Kohala and all islands northwest of Hawaii as the kingdom *obl*; apart *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient portion=Result |
| 2 | **establish** | might | Kama puaa | rulers |  | the kingdom |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruler=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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