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title: She has kept the upper part of the mountain desolate under her mantl… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: She has kept the upper part of the mountain desolate under her mantle of snow and ice, but down toward the sea most fertile and luxuriant valleys and hillside slopes attest the gifts of the goddess to the beauty of the island and the welfare of men. Who acts: Poliahu, upper part, luxuriant valleys. 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 85

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She has kept the upper part of the mountain desolate under her mantle of snow and ice, but down toward the sea most fertile and luxuriant valleys and hillside slopes attest the gifts of the goddess to the beauty of the island and the welfare of men.

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**Who acts:** Poliahu, upper part, luxuriant valleys · **What happens:** keep, desolate, attest, gift · **To what, where:** upper part, mantle, gifts, goddess

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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, upper part, luxuriant valleys), 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:pg66516:12:85
# text = She has kept the upper part of the mountain desolate under her mantle of snow and ice, but down toward the sea most fertile and luxuriant valleys and hillside slopes attest the gifts of the goddess to the beauty of the island and the welfare of men.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	25	advmod	_	_
25	fertile	fertile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	luxuriant	luxuriant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	hillside	hillside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	slopes	slope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
32	attest	attest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	welfare	welfare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present · perfect | Poliahu | the upper part of the mountain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **desolate** | infinitive | the upper part of the mountain *not said here* |  |  | Poliahu's mantle of snow and ice |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **attest** | present | luxuriant valleys and hillside slopes | the gifts of the goddess |  |  |  | to the beauty of the island and the welfare of men | tree rules |
| 4 | **gift** |  |  | the goddess |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=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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