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title: Thus the word “Pele” has been used with three distinct definitions b… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus the word “Pele” has been used with three distinct definitions by the old Hawaiians. Who acts: old Hawaiians. 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 32

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Thus the word “Pele” has been used with three distinct definitions by the old Hawaiians.

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**Who acts:** old Hawaiians · **What happens:** use · **To what, where:** word

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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 (old Hawaiians), 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:pg66516:13:32
# text = Thus the word “Pele” has been used with three distinct definitions by the old Hawaiians.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Pele	pele	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	distinct	distinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	definitions	definition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Hawaiians	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · perfect · passive | the old Hawaiians | the word |  |  |  | with three distinct definitions | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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