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title: These varieties of the name Pele, Fornander carries back also to the… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: These varieties of the name Pele, Fornander carries back also to the pre-Malay dialects of the Indian Archipelago, where pelah means “hot,” belem to “burn.” Who acts: Fornander, pelah. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Genealogy of the Pele Family, with i
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 46

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These varieties of the name Pele, Fornander carries back also to the pre-Malay dialects of the Indian Archipelago, where pelah means “hot,” belem to “burn.”

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**Who acts:** Fornander, pelah · **What happens:** carry back, mean · **To what, where:** Indian Archipelago, hot belem, varieties

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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, pelah), 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:pg66516:13:46
# text = These varieties of the name Pele, Fornander carries back also to the pre-Malay dialects of the Indian Archipelago, where pelah means “hot,” belem to “burn.”
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	varieties	variety	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Fornander	Fornander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	pre-Malay	pre-malay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	dialects	dialect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Archipelago	Archipelago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
22	pelah	pelah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
28	belem	belem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	burn	burn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry back** | present | Fornander | the Indian Archipelago to the pre-Malay dialects |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent archipelago=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | present | pelah | hot belem |  |  |  | to burn | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot belem=Theme to burn=Attribute |

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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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