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title: Then she started the war of taunting words with which chiefs usually… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she started the war of taunting words with which chiefs usually began a conflict. Who acts: Pele, war, taunting words. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 39

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Then she started the war of taunting words with which chiefs usually began a conflict.

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**Who acts:** Pele, war, taunting words · **What happens:** start, taunt, begin, war · **To what, where:** conflict

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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 (Pele, war, taunting words), 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:pg66516:11:39
# text = Then she started the war of taunting words with which chiefs usually began a conflict.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	taunting	taunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	11	det	_	_
11	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | Pele |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **taunt** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the war of taunting words  which chiefs | a conflict |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conflict=Eventuality |
| 4 | **war** |  | taunting words  which chiefs |  |  |  |  |  | nom war «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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