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title: Kama-puaa had too many of the habits and instincts of a hog to pleas… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Kama-puaa had too many of the habits and instincts of a hog to please Pele, and she was too quickly angry to suit the overbearing Kama-puaa. Who acts: Kama puaa, Pele. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 50

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Kama-puaa had too many of the habits and instincts of a hog to please Pele, and she was too quickly angry to suit the overbearing Kama-puaa.

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**Who acts:** Kama puaa, Pele · **What happens:** have, please, be, suit · **To what, where:** many, Pele, overbearing Kama puaa

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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 (Kama puaa, Pele), 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:pg66516:11:50
# text = Kama-puaa had too many of the habits and instincts of a hog to please Pele, and she was too quickly angry to suit the overbearing Kama-puaa.
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	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	habits	habit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	instincts	instinct	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hog	hog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	suit	suit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	overbearing	overbearing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	Kama	Kama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	puaa	puaa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Kama puaa | many of the habits and instincts of a hog |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient |
| 2 | **please** | to-infinitive | Kama puaa *not said here* | Pele |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pele=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | Pele |  |  |  |  | angry, quickly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **suit** | to-infinitive | Pele *not said here* | the overbearing Kama puaa |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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