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title: King Kalakaua was very much interested in explaining the origin of s… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: King Kalakaua was very much interested in explaining the origin of some of the great Hawaiian myths and legends. Who acts: King. 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 34

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King Kalakaua was very much interested in explaining the origin of some of the great Hawaiian myths and legends.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** be, explain · **To what, where:** origin

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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 (King), 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:pg66516:13:34
# text = King Kalakaua was very much interested in explaining the origin of some of the great Hawaiian myths and legends.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Kalakaua	Kalakaua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	interested	interested	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	explaining	explain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | King |  |  |  |  | interested *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | gerund | King *not said here* | the origin of some of the great Hawaiian myths and legends |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent origin=Topic |

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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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