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title: Therefore I place upon you my law, ‘Ke kai okia’ [Cut off by the sea… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore I place upon you my law, ‘Ke kai okia’ [Cut off by the sea] are you—separated from all for me.” Who acts: I. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 101

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Therefore I place upon you my law, ‘Ke kai okia’ \[Cut off by the sea\] are you—separated from all for me.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** place, cut off, separate · **To what, where:** Ke kai okia, place

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg66516:14:101
# text = Therefore I place upon you my law, ‘Ke kai okia’ [Cut off by the sea] are you—separated from all for me.”
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Ke	Ke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	kai	kai	X	FW	_	12	compound	_	_
12	okia	okia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	obl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** |  | I |  |  |  |  | upon my law  you; Ke kai okia *conj*; therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cut off** | participle |  | Ke kai okia *not said here* |  |  |  | by the sea | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **separate** | present · passive |  | place and Ke kai okia |  |  |  | for me; from all; you *nsubj* | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from all=Co-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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