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title: They were all queens of beauty, full of wit and wisdom, lovers of ad… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: They were all queens of beauty, full of wit and wisdom, lovers of adventure, and enemies of Pele. Who acts: maidens. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Snow-goddess, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 2

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They were all queens of beauty, full of wit and wisdom, lovers of adventure, and enemies of Pele.

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**Who acts:** maidens · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** queens

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Snow-goddess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maidens), 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:pg66516:12:2
# text = They were all queens of beauty, full of wit and wisdom, lovers of adventure, and enemies of Pele.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	wit	wit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | maidens *= maiden* | all queens and enemies of Pele |  |  |  | of beauty; enemies of Pele *conj* | 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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