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title: Kahoupokane was possibly the goddess of the mountain Hualalai, contr… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Kahoupokane was possibly the goddess of the mountain Hualalai, controlling the snows which after long intervals fall on its desolate summits. Who acts: Kahoupokane, long intervals. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Snow-goddess, with its depe
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 22

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Kahoupokane was possibly the goddess of the mountain Hualalai, controlling the snows which after long intervals fall on its desolate summits.

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**Who acts:** Kahoupokane, long intervals · **What happens:** be, control, fall, desolate · **To what, where:** goddess, snows, summits

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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 (Kahoupokane, long intervals), 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:pg66516:12:22
# text = Kahoupokane was possibly the goddess of the mountain Hualalai, controlling the snows which after long intervals fall on its desolate summits.
1	Kahoupokane	Kahoupokane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	Hualalai	Hualalai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	controlling	control	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	snows	snow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	intervals	interval	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
22	summits	summit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Kahoupokane | the goddess |  |  |  | of the mountain; possibly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **control** | gerund | Kahoupokane *not said here* | the snows |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | present | long intervals | the snows |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **desolate** | infinitive | long intervals *not said here* | summits |  |  |  | snow *nmod:poss* | 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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