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title: The perfume of the hala, [10] the fragrance of Keaau, clung to the w… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The perfume of the hala, [10] the fragrance of Keaau, clung to the walls of the house. 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 20

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The perfume of the hala, \[10\] the fragrance of Keaau, clung to the walls of the house.

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**What happens:** cling, perfume · **To what, where:** fragrance, 10, hala

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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: 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:pg66516:14:20
# text = The perfume of the hala, [10] the fragrance of Keaau, clung to the walls of the house.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hala	hala	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Keaau	Keaau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	clung	cling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cling** | participle |  | the fragrance of Keaau *not said here* |  |  |  | to the walls of the house | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to wall=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **perfume** |  |  | the hala |  |  |  |  | nom perfume «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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