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title: Fornander, in “The Polynesian Race,” says: “In Hawaiian, Pele is the… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Fornander, in “The Polynesian Race,” says: “In Hawaiian, Pele is the fire-goddess who dwells in volcanoes. Who acts: Fornander, Hawaiian Pele, fire goddess. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Genealogy of the Pele Family, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 43

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Fornander, in “The Polynesian Race,” says: “In Hawaiian, Pele is the fire-goddess who dwells in volcanoes.

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**Who acts:** Fornander, Hawaiian Pele, fire goddess · **What happens:** say, be, dwell · **To what, where:** fire goddess, volcanoes · **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 (Fornander, Hawaiian Pele, fire goddess), 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:pg66516:13:43
# text = Fornander, in “The Polynesian Race,” says: “In Hawaiian, Pele is the fire-goddess who dwells in volcanoes.
1	Fornander	Fornander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Polynesian	polynesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Race	Race	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
10	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	In	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	dwells	dwell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Fornander |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Hawaiian Pele | the fire goddess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dwell** *in a quote* | present | the fire goddess |  |  | volcanoes |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in volcano=Location |

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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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