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title: He refused, saying that it was best for them to abide by their oath,… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: He refused, saying that it was best for them to abide by their oath, and not take any part of what belonged to the other. Who acts: husband, difficulties. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 122

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He refused, saying that it was best for them to abide by their oath, and not take any part of what belonged to the other.

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**Who acts:** husband, difficulties · **What happens:** refuse, say, be, abide, not take, belong · **To what, where:** part · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (husband, difficulties), 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:pg66516:11:122
# text = He refused, saying that it was best for them to abide by their oath, and not take any part of what belonged to the other.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	expl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	ccomp	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	abide	abide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	csubj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nmod	_	_
24	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | past | husband |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **abide** | to-infinitive | difficulties *= difficulty* |  |  |  |  | by difficulties's oath | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **take** | infinitive |  | any part |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 6 | **belong** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to the other | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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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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