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title: Yet the expression that Haumea was a precipice might imply a misty f… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet the expression that Haumea was a precipice might imply a misty feeling in that direction. Who acts: Haumea, expression. 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 clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 81

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Yet the expression that Haumea was a precipice might imply a misty feeling in that direction.

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**Who acts:** Haumea, expression · **What happens:** be, imply · **To what, where:** precipice, misty feeling, direction

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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 (Haumea, expression), 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:pg66516:13:81
# text = Yet the expression that Haumea was a precipice might imply a misty feeling in that direction.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	Haumea	Haumea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	precipice	precipice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	imply	imply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	misty	misty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **is a** | past | Haumea | a precipice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **imply** | might | the expression | a misty feeling |  | that direction |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot feeling=Topic |

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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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