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title: Her dress was the splendid garland of the red lehua flower and maile… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Her dress was the splendid garland of the red lehua flower and maile [12] leaf and the fern from the dwelling-places of the gods. Who acts: dress. 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 cl
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 41

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Her dress was the splendid garland of the red lehua flower and maile \[12\] leaf and the fern from the dwelling-places of the gods.

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**Who acts:** dress · **What happens:** be, maile · **To what, where:** splendid garland, 12 leaf

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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 (dress), 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:pg66516:14:41
# text = Her dress was the splendid garland of the red lehua flower and maile [12] leaf and the fern from the dwelling-places of the gods.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	garland	garland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	lehua	lehua	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	maile	maile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fern	fern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Nor's dress | the splendid garland |  |  |  | of the red lehua flower | tree rules |
| 2 | **maile** | infinitive | Nor's dress *not said here* | 12 leaf and the fern from the dwelling places of the gods |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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