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title: She refused to eat while others partook of a feast before the dancin… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: She refused to eat while others partook of a feast before the dancing should begin, and sat watching carefully with large, bright, shining eyes the face of Lohiau, using magic power to make him pay attention to her charms. Who acts: chief, others, dancing. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoe
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 104

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She refused to eat while others partook of a feast before the dancing should begin, and sat watching carefully with large, bright, shining eyes the face of Lohiau, using magic power to make him pay attention to her charms.

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**Who acts:** chief, others, dancing · **What happens:** refuse, not eat, partake, begin, sit, watch · **To what, where:** magic power, dancing, attention

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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 (chief, others, dancing), 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:pg66516:14:104
# text = She refused to eat while others partook of a feast before the dancing should begin, and sat watching carefully with large, bright, shining eyes the face of Lohiau, using magic power to make him pay attention to her charms.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	partook	partake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	xcomp	_	_
20	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
22	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Lohiau	Lohiau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
34	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	charms	charm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | past | chief |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **eat** | to-infinitive | chief *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **partake** | past | others |  |  |  |  | of a feast | tree rules |
| 4 | **begin** | should | the dancing |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **sit** | past | chief *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **watch** | gerund | chief *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with large shining eyes; carefully *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **use** | gerund | chief *not said here* | magic power |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 9 | **make** | to-infinitive | chief *not said here* | dancing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **pay** | infinitive | dancing *not said here* | attention |  |  |  | to chief's charms | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |

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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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