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title: On a certain day there was a fine, clear atmosphere and Pele saw the… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: On a certain day there was a fine, clear atmosphere and Pele saw the splendid surf with its white crests and proposed to her sisters to go down for bathing and surf-riding. Who acts: fine clear atmosphere, Pele. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Lo
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 2

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On a certain day there was a fine, clear atmosphere and Pele saw the splendid surf with its white crests and proposed to her sisters to go down for bathing and surf-riding.

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**Who acts:** fine clear atmosphere, Pele · **What happens:** be, see, propose, go down · **To what, where:** splendid surf, sisters

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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 (fine clear atmosphere, Pele), 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:pg66516:14:2
# text = On a certain day there was a fine, clear atmosphere and Pele saw the splendid surf with its white crests and proposed to her sisters to go down for bathing and surf-riding.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	atmosphere	atmosphere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	surf	surf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	crests	crest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	proposed	propose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
29	down	down	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	bathing	bathing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	surf	surf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a fine clear atmosphere |  |  | there | day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | Pele | the splendid surf |  |  |  | with atmosphere's white crests | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer surf=Stimulus |
| 3 | **propose** | participle | Pele *not said here* |  | family's sisters |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient |
| 4 | **go down** | to-infinitive | Pele *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for bathing and surf riding; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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