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title: “I will sleep, giving up to the shadows of the falling evening—dropp… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: “I will sleep, giving up to the shadows of the falling evening—dropping into the very depths of slumber. Who acts: Pele. 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 9

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“I will sleep, giving up to the shadows of the falling evening—dropping into the very depths of slumber.

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**Who acts:** Pele · **What happens:** sleep, give up, fall, drop, shadow · **To what, where:** shadows, depths, falling evening

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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), 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:pg66516:14:9
# text = “I will sleep, giving up to the shadows of the falling evening—dropping into the very depths of slumber.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	amod	_	_
14	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	dropping	drop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	slumber	slumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** *in a quote* | future | Pele |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give up** *in a quote* | gerund | Pele *not said here* |  | the shadows of the falling evening |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to shadow=Recipient |
| 3 | **fall** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **drop** *in a quote* | gerund | Pele *not said here* |  |  | the depths of slumber |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into depth=Trajectory |
| 5 | **shadow** *in a quote* |  |  | the falling evening |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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