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title: In Raratonga is found a legend which approaches the Hawaiian stories… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: In Raratonga is found a legend which approaches the Hawaiian stories more nearly than any other from foreign sources. Who acts: legend. 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 cl
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 49

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In Raratonga is found a legend which approaches the Hawaiian stories more nearly than any other from foreign sources.

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**Who acts:** legend · **What happens:** find, approach · **To what, where:** legend, Raratonga, Hawaiian stories

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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 (legend), 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:pg66516:13:49
# text = In Raratonga is found a legend which approaches the Hawaiian stories more nearly than any other from foreign sources.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Raratonga	Raratonga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	approaches	approach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present · passive |  | a legend |  | Raratonga |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: legend=Topic |
| 2 | **approach** | present | a legend | the Hawaiian stories |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=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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