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title: Ku was the fiercest and most powerful of the four chief gods. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Ku was the fiercest and most powerful of the four chief gods. Who acts: Ku. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Genealogy of the Pele Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 24

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Ku was the fiercest and most powerful of the four chief gods.

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**Who acts:** Ku · **What happens:** be

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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 (Ku), 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:pg66516:13:24
# text = Ku was the fiercest and most powerful of the four chief gods.
1	Ku	Ku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fiercest	fierce	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Ku |  |  |  |  | fierce *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Ku *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the four chief gods | tree rules |

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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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