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title: Here she sported among mortals, meeting the chiefs in their many and… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Here she sported among mortals, meeting the chiefs in their many and curious games of chance and skill. Who acts: Poliahu. 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 25

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Here she sported among mortals, meeting the chiefs in their many and curious games of chance and skill.

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**Who acts:** Poliahu · **What happens:** sport, meet · **To what, where:** chiefs, many games

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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 (Poliahu), 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:pg66516:12:25
# text = Here she sported among mortals, meeting the chiefs in their many and curious games of chance and skill.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sported	sport	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	among	among	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	mortals	mortal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sport** | past | Poliahu |  |  | here |  | among mortals | tree rules |
| 2 | **meet** | gerund | Poliahu *not said here* | the chiefs |  | chiefs's many games of chance and skill |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Co-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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