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title: A modern reader would think that Haumea as Mother Earth threw out he… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: A modern reader would think that Haumea as Mother Earth threw out her children in the natural outburst of earth forces, but it is extremely doubtful if the old Hawaiians had any such idea. Who acts: modern reader, Haumea, reader, old Hawaiians. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 80

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A modern reader would think that Haumea as Mother Earth threw out her children in the natural outburst of earth forces, but it is extremely doubtful if the old Hawaiians had any such idea.

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**Who acts:** modern reader, Haumea, reader, old Hawaiians · **What happens:** think, throw out, be, have · **To what, where:** children, natural outburst, such idea

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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 (modern reader, Haumea, reader, old Hawaiians), 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:pg66516:13:80
# text = A modern reader would think that Haumea as Mother Earth threw out her children in the natural outburst of earth forces, but it is extremely doubtful if the old Hawaiians had any such idea.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	Haumea	Haumea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
11	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	outburst	outburst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Hawaiians	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
33	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
34	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **think** *speech: other* | would | a modern reader |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **throw out** | past | Haumea as Mother | Haumea's children |  | the natural outburst of earth forces |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent child=Theme in outburst=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | present | reader |  |  |  |  | doubtful, extremely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the old Hawaiians | any such idea |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |

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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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