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title: He was the elder brother, the caretaker of the family, always self-d… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: He was the elder brother, the caretaker of the family, always self-denying and ready to answer any call from his relatives. Who acts: alii. 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 ever
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 76

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He was the elder brother, the caretaker of the family, always self-denying and ready to answer any call from his relatives.

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**Who acts:** alii · **What happens:** be, deny, answer · **To what, where:** elder brother, call, relatives

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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 (alii), 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:pg66516:13:76
# text = He was the elder brother, the caretaker of the family, always self-denying and ready to answer any call from his relatives.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	caretaker	caretaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	16	advmod	_	_
14	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	denying	deny	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | alii | the elder brother and the caretaker of the family |  |  |  | the caretaker of the family *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **deny** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | self *compound*; always *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | any call |  | alii's relatives |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent call=Eventuality |

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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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