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title: In both cases the name means “Ku with the wormy mouth,” or “Ku, the… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: In both cases the name means “Ku with the wormy mouth,” or “Ku, the man-eater” (The cannibal), whose act made him ferocious and inhuman in the eyes of the Hawaiians. Who acts: name, Ku, act. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Genealogy of the Pele Family, 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 29

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In both cases the name means “Ku with the wormy mouth,” or “Ku, the man-eater” (The cannibal), whose act made him ferocious and inhuman in the eyes of the Hawaiians.

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**Who acts:** name, Ku, act · **What happens:** mean, eater, make · **To what, where:** Ku, name, eyes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (name, Ku, act), 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:pg66516:13:29
# text = In both cases the name means “Ku with the wormy mouth,” or “Ku, the man-eater” (The cannibal), whose act made him ferocious and inhuman in the eyes of the Hawaiians.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Ku	Ku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	wormy	wormy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Ku	Ku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	eater	eater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cannibal	cannibal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	ferocious	ferocious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	inhuman	inhuman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	Hawaiians	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | the name | Ku |  |  |  | with the wormy mouth or the man eater; in both cases | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot ku=Theme in case=Attribute |
| 2 | **eater** *in a quote* |  | Ku |  |  |  |  | the cannibal *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past | act | name |  | the eyes of the Hawaiians |  | ferocious *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |

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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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