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title: Perhaps this desire for reconciliation underlies the legendary love… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Perhaps this desire for reconciliation underlies the legendary love of Pele for sacrifices of those things which would most intimately connect her with Kama-puaa. Who acts: desire. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa, with its dependency 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 123

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Perhaps this desire for reconciliation underlies the legendary love of Pele for sacrifices of those things which would most intimately connect her with Kama-puaa.

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**Who acts:** desire · **What happens:** underlie, connect, love, sacrifice · **To what, where:** legendary love, things, Pele

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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 (desire), 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:pg66516:11:123
# text = Perhaps this desire for reconciliation underlies the legendary love of Pele for sacrifices of those things which would most intimately connect her with Kama-puaa.
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	reconciliation	reconciliation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	underlies	underlie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	legendary	legendary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sacrifices	sacrifice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	20	advmod	_	_
20	intimately	intimately	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	connect	connect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	Kama	Kama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	puaa	puaa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **underlie** | present | this desire for reconciliation | the legendary love of Pele |  |  |  | for sacrifices of that things; perhaps *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme love=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **connect** | would |  | that things |  |  |  | with Kama puaa; Pele *obj*; intimately *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent which=Patient she=Result |
| 3 | **love** |  |  | Pele |  |  |  | for sacrifices of that things | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient for=obl |
| 4 | **sacrifice** |  |  | that things |  |  |  |  | nom sacrifice «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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