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title: Kapo was a vile, murderous poison-goddess connected with the idea of… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Kapo was a vile, murderous poison-goddess connected with the idea of “praying to death,” [7] and in the better legends is dropped out of the Pele family. Who acts: Kapo, idea. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Genealogy of the Pele Family, with its depend
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 104

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Kapo was a vile, murderous poison-goddess connected with the idea of “praying to death,” \[7\] and in the better legends is dropped out of the Pele family.

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**Who acts:** Kapo, idea · **What happens:** be, connect, pray, drop out · **To what, where:** vile murderous poison goddess, Pele family

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Genealogy of the Pele Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kapo, idea), 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:pg66516:13:104
# text = Kapo was a vile, murderous poison-goddess connected with the idea of “praying to death,” [7] and in the better legends is dropped out of the Pele family.
1	Kapo	Kapo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
4	vile	vile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	murderous	murderous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	praying	pray	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
21	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Kapo | a vile murderous poison goddess and the better legends |  |  |  | 7 *appos*; the better legends *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **connect** | participle |  | a vile murderous poison goddess and the better legends *not said here* |  |  |  | with the idea | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with idea=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **pray** *in a quote* | gerund | the idea *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to death | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **drop out** | present · passive |  | a vile murderous poison goddess and the better legends |  | the Pele family |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme family=Destination |

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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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