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description: The chiefs of the different districts of the various islands had their favorite meeting-places for any sport in which they desired to engage. Who acts: chiefs. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Snow-goddess, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 58

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The chiefs of the different districts of the various islands had their favorite meeting-places for any sport in which they desired to engage.

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**Who acts:** chiefs · **What happens:** have, desire, engage · **To what, where:** favorite meeting places, sport

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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 (chiefs), 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:pg66516:12:58
# text = The chiefs of the different districts of the various islands had their favorite meeting-places for any sport in which they desired to engage.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	districts	district	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
13	favorite	favorite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	engage	engage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the chiefs of the different districts of the various islands | chiefs's favorite meeting places |  |  |  | for any sport | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
| 2 | **desire** | past | chiefs *= chief* |  |  | any sport |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **engage** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | chiefs *= chief* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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