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title: I will return to my land—to the fragrant blossoms of the hala, but I… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: I will return to my land—to the fragrant blossoms of the hala, but I will send one of my younger sisters to come after you. 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 185

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I will return to my land—to the fragrant blossoms of the hala, but I will send one of my younger sisters to come after you.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** return, send, come · **To what, where:** land, one

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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:pg66516:14:185
# text = I will return to my land—to the fragrant blossoms of the hala, but I will send one of my younger sisters to come after you.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hala	hala	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
27	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | future | I |  |  | my land |  | to the fragrant blossoms of the hala | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to land=Initial\_Location to blossom=Destination |
| 2 | **send** | future | I | one of my younger sisters |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  | after you |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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