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title: Somewhere, buried in the memory of some old Hawaiian, is a legend wo… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Somewhere, buried in the memory of some old Hawaiian, is a legend worth exhuming, probably connecting Waiau, the maiden, with Waiau, the lake. 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 ever
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 21

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Somewhere, buried in the memory of some old Hawaiian, is a legend worth exhuming, probably connecting Waiau, the maiden, with Waiau, the lake.

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**What happens:** bury, be, exhume, connect · **To what, where:** memory, legend, Waiau

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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: 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:pg66516:12:21
# text = Somewhere, buried in the memory of some old Hawaiian, is a legend worth exhuming, probably connecting Waiau, the maiden, with Waiau, the lake.
1	Somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
15	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
16	exhuming	exhume	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	connecting	connect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	conj	_	_
20	Waiau	Waiau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Waiau	Waiau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** | participle |  |  |  | the memory |  | somewhere *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in memory=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a legend |  |  |  | of some old Hawaiian | tree rules |
| 3 | **exhume** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **connect** | gerund |  | Waiau and Waiau |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waiau=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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