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title: He was thinking of her marvellous, restful beauty, as given in the a… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: He was thinking of her marvellous, restful beauty, as given in the ancient chant known as “Lei Mauna Loa.” Who acts: Ka. 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 77

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He was thinking of her marvellous, restful beauty, as given in the ancient chant known as “Lei Mauna Loa.”

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**Who acts:** Ka · **What happens:** think, give, know · **To what, where:** ancient chant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Ka), 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:pg66516:14:77
# text = He was thinking of her marvellous, restful beauty, as given in the ancient chant known as “Lei Mauna Loa.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
6	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	restful	restful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	chant	chant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Lei	Lei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Mauna	Mauna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Loa	Loa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | Ka |  |  |  |  | of Lohiau's marvellous restful beauty | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | participle |  |  |  | the ancient chant |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  | the ancient chant *not said here* |  |  |  | as Mauna Loa | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as loa=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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