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title: Pele’s spirit passed at once to the body lying in the house thatched… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Pele’s spirit passed at once to the body lying in the house thatched with ti [13] leaves in Puna. Who acts: spirit, lying. 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 190

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Pele’s spirit passed at once to the body lying in the house thatched with ti \[13\] leaves in Puna.

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**Who acts:** spirit, lying · **What happens:** pass, lie, thatch, leave · **To what, where:** house, 13, Puna

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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 (spirit, lying), 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:pg66516:14:190
# text = Pele’s spirit passed at once to the body lying in the house thatched with ti [13] leaves in Puna.
1	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	csubj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	thatched	thatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	ti	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Puna	Puna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | Pele's spirit |  |  |  |  | to the body | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | the house |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **thatch** | participle |  | 13 |  |  |  | with ti *= it* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | present | lying |  |  |  |  | in Puna *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in puna=Result |

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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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