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title: Pele rejoiced over the skill of her younger sister and was surprised… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Pele rejoiced over the skill of her younger sister and was surprised by the chanted reference to the experiences at Haena. Who acts: Pele, chanted reference. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 203

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Pele rejoiced over the skill of her younger sister and was surprised by the chanted reference to the experiences at Haena.

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**Who acts:** Pele, chanted reference · **What happens:** rejoice, surprise, chant · **To what, where:** skill, Haena

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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, chanted reference), 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:pg66516:14:203
# text = Pele rejoiced over the skill of her younger sister and was surprised by the chanted reference to the experiences at Haena.
1	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	surprised	surprise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	chanted	chant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	experiences	experience	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Haena	Haena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rejoice** | past | Pele |  |  | the skill of friend's younger sister |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **surprise** | past · passive | the chanted reference |  |  | Haena |  | to the experiences | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **chant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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