--- title: At last she came to the beach and, telling the sisters that the tabu… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics description: At last she came to the beach and, telling the sisters that the tabu on swimming was lifted, and they could enter upon their sport, went inland with her youngest sister, Hiiaka, to watch while she slept. Who acts: family, sisters, telling. 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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 (family, sisters, telling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66516:14:6 # text = At last she came to the beach and, telling the sisters that the tabu on swimming was lifted, and they could enter upon their sport, went inland with her youngest sister, Hiiaka, to watch while she slept. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 csubj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 obj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 tabu tabu NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 swimming swimming NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 lifted lift VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 enter enter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 25 upon upon ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 sport sport NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 29 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 30 inland inland ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 34 amod _ _ 34 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 Hiiaka Hiiaka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 40 while while SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 slept sleep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | family | | | last | | to the beach | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | the sisters | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient | | 3 | **lift** | past · passive | | the tabu on swimming | | | | the sisters *obj* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme that=Destination | | 4 | **enter** | could | sisters *= sister* | | | | | upon sisters's sport | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **go** | past | telling | | | | | with family's youngest sister; inland *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with sister=Beneficiary | | 6 | **watch** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **sleep** | past | family | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **sport** | | sisters *= sister* | | | | | | nom sport «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/14/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/14/7/) - ↑ back to [Pele’s Long Sleep](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/14/)