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title: They ruled the mountains north of Kilauea and dwelt in the cloud-cap… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: They ruled the mountains north of Kilauea and dwelt in the cloud-capped summits. Who acts: maidens. 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 5

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They ruled the mountains north of Kilauea and dwelt in the cloud-capped summits.

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**Who acts:** maidens · **What happens:** rule, dwell, cap · **To what, where:** mountains, capped 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 (maidens), 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:pg66516:12:5
# text = They ruled the mountains north of Kilauea and dwelt in the cloud-capped summits.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	north	north	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	capped	cap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	summits	summit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past | maidens *= maiden* | the mountains |  |  |  | north *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme |
| 2 | **dwell** | past | maidens *= maiden* *not said here* |  |  | the capped summits |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in summit=Location |
| 3 | **cap** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | cloud *compound* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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