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title: Poliahu in legendary battles has met Pele many times. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Poliahu in legendary battles has met Pele many times. 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 84

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Poliahu in legendary battles has met Pele many times.

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**Who acts:** Poliahu · **What happens:** meet · **To what, where:** Pele

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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:pg66516:12:84
# text = Poliahu in legendary battles has met Pele many times.
1	Poliahu	Poliahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	legendary	legendary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | present · perfect | Poliahu in legendary battles | Pele |  |  | time |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pele=Co-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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