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title: Pele loved the holua-coasting—the race of sleds, long and narrow, do… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Pele loved the holua-coasting—the race of sleds, long and narrow, down sloping, grassy hillsides. Who acts: Pele, sleds. 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 56

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Pele loved the holua-coasting—the race of sleds, long and narrow, down sloping, grassy hillsides.

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**Who acts:** Pele, sleds · **What happens:** love, slope, race · **To what, where:** holua coasting, grassy hillsides

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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 (Pele, sleds), 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:pg66516:12:56
# text = Pele loved the holua-coasting—the race of sleds, long and narrow, down sloping, grassy hillsides.
1	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	holua	holua	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	coasting	coasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	sleds	sled	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	sloping	slope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	grassy	grassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hillsides	hillside	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | Pele | the holua coasting |  |  |  | the race of sleds *obl* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coasting=Stimulus |
| 2 | **slope** | gerund | Pele *not said here* | grassy hillsides |  |  |  | down *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **race** |  | sleds |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: of=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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