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title: Sometimes she wore a mantle of pure white kapa and rested on the led… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes she wore a mantle of pure white kapa and rested on the ledge of rock overhanging the torrents of water which in various places fell into the sea. Who acts: Poliahu, torrents. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Snow-goddess, with its 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 26

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Sometimes she wore a mantle of pure white kapa and rested on the ledge of rock overhanging the torrents of water which in various places fell into the sea.

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**Who acts:** Poliahu, torrents · **What happens:** wear, rest, overhang, fall · **To what, where:** mantle, ledge, torrents, various places

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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, torrents), 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:pg66516:12:26
# text = Sometimes she wore a mantle of pure white kapa and rested on the ledge of rock overhanging the torrents of water which in various places fell into the sea.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	kapa	kapa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	rested	rest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ledge	ledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	overhanging	overhang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	torrents	torrent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
26	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	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 | **wear** | past | Poliahu | a mantle of pure white kapa |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mantle=Source |
| 2 | **rest** | participle | Poliahu *not said here* |  |  | the ledge of rock |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ledge=Location |
| 3 | **overhang** | gerund | Poliahu *not said here* | the torrents of water |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme torrent=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | past | the torrents of water |  |  | various places |  | into the sea | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in place=Location |

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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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