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title: Then she called on all the noted winds of the island Niihau, stating… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she called on all the noted winds of the island Niihau, stating the directions from which they came, the points of land struck when they touched the island and their gentleness or wrath, their weakness or power, and their helpfulness or destructiveness. Who acts: chief, directions. A sentence o
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 113

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Then she called on all the noted winds of the island Niihau, stating the directions from which they came, the points of land struck when they touched the island and their gentleness or wrath, their weakness or power, and their helpfulness or destructiveness.

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**Who acts:** chief, directions · **What happens:** call, note, state, come, strike, touch · **To what, where:** noted winds, directions, points, island, land · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, directions), 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:pg66516:14:113
# text = Then she called on all the noted winds of the island Niihau, stating the directions from which they came, the points of land struck when they touched the island and their gentleness or wrath, their weakness or power, and their helpfulness or destructiveness.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	noted	note	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	Niihau	Niihau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	stating	state	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	gentleness	gentleness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	weakness	weakness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
40	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	helpfulness	helpfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
46	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	destructiveness	destructiveness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | chief |  |  | all noted winds of the island | then |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **note** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **state** *speech: other* | gerund | chief *not said here* | the directions |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent direction=Topic |
| 4 | **come** | past | directions *= direction* | the points of land |  | the directions |  | directions's helpfulness or destructiveness *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **strike** | participle |  | the points of land *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **touch** | past | directions *= direction* | the island and directions's gentleness or wrath and directions's weakness or power |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme island=Co-Theme |
| 7 | **wind** |  |  | the island |  |  |  |  | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **point** |  |  | land |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=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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