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title: Poliahu and her friends had come down Mauna Kea to a sloping hillsid… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Poliahu and her friends had come down Mauna Kea to a sloping hillside south of Hamakua. 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 61

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Poliahu and her friends had come down Mauna Kea to a sloping hillside south of Hamakua.

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**Who acts:** Poliahu · **What happens:** come down, slope · **To what, where:** Mauna, sloping hillside

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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:pg66516:12:61
# text = Poliahu and her friends had come down Mauna Kea to a sloping hillside south of Hamakua.
1	Poliahu	Poliahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	Mauna	Mauna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	Kea	Kea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	sloping	slope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	amod	_	_
13	hillside	hillside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	south	south	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Hamakua	Hamakua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | past · perfect | Poliahu and Poliahu's friends | Mauna |  | a sloping hillside of Hamakua |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hillside=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **slope** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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