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title: Then Pele chanted for the return of the winds to Niihau and its smal… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Pele chanted for the return of the winds to Niihau and its small islands and the day was at peace as the voice of the singer softened toward the end of the chant. Who acts: Pele, day, peace, winds. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep,
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 119

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Then Pele chanted for the return of the winds to Niihau and its small islands and the day was at peace as the voice of the singer softened toward the end of the chant.

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**Who acts:** Pele, day, peace, winds · **What happens:** chant, be, soften, return · **To what, where:** peace

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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 (Pele, day, peace, winds), 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:pg66516:14:119
# text = Then Pele chanted for the return of the winds to Niihau and its small islands and the day was at peace as the voice of the singer softened toward the end of the chant.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	chanted	chant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Niihau	Niihau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	singer	singer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	softened	soften	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
29	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	chant	chant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chant** | past | Pele |  |  |  | then | for the return of the winds to Niihau and return's small islands | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for return=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the day |  |  | peace |  | as the voice of the singer | tree rules |
| 3 | **soften** | past | peace |  |  |  | toward the end of the chant |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **return** |  | the winds to Niihau and return's small islands |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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