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title: After a time the native imagination, which always credited ghost-god… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: After a time the native imagination, which always credited ghost-gods, placed this family among the most powerful au-makuas and gave them a home in the heart of the crater. Who acts: native imagination, ghost gods. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Geneal
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 37

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After a time the native imagination, which always credited ghost-gods, placed this family among the most powerful au-makuas and gave them a home in the heart of the crater.

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**Who acts:** native imagination, ghost gods · **What happens:** credit, place, give · **To what, where:** ghost gods, family, powerful au makuas, home, gods, heart

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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 (native imagination, ghost gods), 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:pg66516:13:37
# text = After a time the native imagination, which always credited ghost-gods, placed this family among the most powerful au-makuas and gave them a home in the heart of the crater.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	credited	credit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	among	among	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	au	au	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	makuas	makua	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	crater	crater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **credit** | past | the native imagination |  | ghost gods |  |  | always *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Recipient |
| 2 | **place** | participle | ghost gods *not said here* | this family |  | the powerful au makuas |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent family=Theme among makua=Destination |
| 3 | **give** | past | ghost gods *not said here* | a home | gods *= god* | the heart of the crater |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient home=Theme |

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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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