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title: At last he called to her: “This cold is the snow mantle of Poliahu. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: At last he called to her: “This cold is the snow mantle of Poliahu. Who acts: retinue, cold. 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 47

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At last he called to her: “This cold is the snow mantle of Poliahu.

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**Who acts:** retinue, cold · **What happens:** call, be · **To what, where:** Aiwohikupua, last, snow mantle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (retinue, cold), 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:pg66516:12:47
# text = At last he called to her: “This cold is the snow mantle of Poliahu.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Poliahu	Poliahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | retinue |  | Aiwohikupua | last |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this cold | the snow mantle |  |  |  | of Poliahu | 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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