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title: Kama-puaa was born on the island of Oahu, where he was known as a ve… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Kama-puaa was born on the island of Oahu, where he was known as a very powerful and destructive monster, also as a peculiarly handsome and even lovable chief. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 3

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Kama-puaa was born on the island of Oahu, where he was known as a very powerful and destructive monster, also as a peculiarly handsome and even lovable chief.

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**What happens:** bear, know · **To what, where:** Kama puaa, island, Oahu

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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: 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:pg66516:11:3
# text = Kama-puaa was born on the island of Oahu, where he was known as a very powerful and destructive monster, also as a peculiarly handsome and even lovable chief.
1	Kama	Kama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	puaa	puaa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	destructive	destructive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	also	also	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	peculiarly	peculiarly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	even	even	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	lovable	lovable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | Kama puaa |  | the island of Oahu |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | past · passive |  | Oahu |  |  |  | as a powerful monster | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as monster=Attribute |

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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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