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title: They all had the power of laying aside the white garment and taking… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: They all had the power of laying aside the white garment and taking in its place clothes made from the golden sunshine. Who acts: maidens, power. 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 e
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 7

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They all had the power of laying aside the white garment and taking in its place clothes made from the golden sunshine.

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**Who acts:** maidens, power · **What happens:** have, lay, take, make · **To what, where:** power, white garment, place clothes, golden sunshine

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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, power), 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:pg66516:12:7
# text = They all had the power of laying aside the white garment and taking in its place clothes made from the golden sunshine.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	garment	garment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	13	obl	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | maidens *= maiden* | the power |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 2 | **lay** | gerund | the power *not said here* | the white garment |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garment=Result |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | the power *not said here* |  |  | garment's place clothes |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in clothes=Location |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  | garment's place clothes *not said here* |  | the golden sunshine |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from sunshine=Material |

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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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