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title: Poliahu and the three other maidens of the white robe came down to m… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Poliahu and the three other maidens of the white robe came down to meet the guests from Kauai. 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 36

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Poliahu and the three other maidens of the white robe came down to meet the guests from Kauai.

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**Who acts:** Poliahu · **What happens:** come down, meet · **To what, where:** guests, Kauai

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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:pg66516:12:36
# text = Poliahu and the three other maidens of the white robe came down to meet the guests from Kauai.
1	Poliahu	Poliahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | past | Poliahu and the three other maidens of the white robe |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Poliahu and the three other maidens of the white robe *not said here* | the guests |  | Kauai |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=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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