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title: Whenever Pele slept she lost the appearance which she usually assume… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Whenever Pele slept she lost the appearance which she usually assumed, of a beautiful and glorious young woman, surpassing all the other women in the islands. Who acts: Pele, Puna, beautiful young woman. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 22

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Whenever Pele slept she lost the appearance which she usually assumed, of a beautiful and glorious young woman, surpassing all the other women in the islands.

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**Who acts:** Pele, Puna, beautiful young woman · **What happens:** sleep, lose, assume, surpass · **To what, where:** appearance, other women

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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, Puna, beautiful young woman), 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:pg66516:14:22
# text = Whenever Pele slept she lost the appearance which she usually assumed, of a beautiful and glorious young woman, surpassing all the other women in the islands.
1	Whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	3	advmod	_	_
2	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	assumed	assume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	surpassing	surpass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | past | Pele |  |  |  |  | whenever *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lose** | past | Puna | the appearance |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Eventuality |
| 3 | **assume** | past | Puna | the appearance |  |  |  | of a beautiful young woman; usually *property* | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 4 | **surpass** | gerund | a beautiful young woman *not said here* | all other women |  |  |  | in the islands | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot woman=Theme in island=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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