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title: Then Lohiau proposed to his chiefs that he should take this beautifu… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Lohiau proposed to his chiefs that he should take this beautiful chiefess from Kauai as his queen, and his thought seemed good to all. Who acts: Lohiau, mist, thought. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep, with its dependency tree and 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 88

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Then Lohiau proposed to his chiefs that he should take this beautiful chiefess from Kauai as his queen, and his thought seemed good to all.

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**Who acts:** Lohiau, mist, thought · **What happens:** propose, take, seem, think · **To what, where:** chiefs, beautiful chiefess, Kauai

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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 (Lohiau, mist, thought), 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:pg66516:14:88
# text = Then Lohiau proposed to his chiefs that he should take this beautiful chiefess from Kauai as his queen, and his thought seemed good to all.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Lohiau	Lohiau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	proposed	propose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	chiefess	chiefess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **propose** | past | Lohiau |  | mist's chiefs |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to chief=Recipient |
| 2 | **take** | should | mist | this beautiful chiefess |  | Kauai |  | as mist's queen | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent chiefess=Theme from kauai=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **seem** | past | mist's thought |  |  |  |  | to all; good *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **think** |  | mist |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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