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title: Three of the women of Kauai who were known as “the guardians of Haen… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Three of the women of Kauai who were known as “the guardians of Haena” had come into the halau and taken their places near Lohiau. Who acts: Three. 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 c
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 94

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Three of the women of Kauai who were known as “the guardians of Haena” had come into the halau and taken their places near Lohiau.

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**Who acts:** Three · **What happens:** know, come, take · **To what, where:** women, halau, places, Lohiau

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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 (Three), 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:pg66516:14:94
# text = Three of the women of Kauai who were known as “the guardians of Haena” had come into the halau and taken their places near Lohiau.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	guardians	guardian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Haena	Haena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	halau	halau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	near	near	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Lohiau	Lohiau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past · passive |  | the women of Kauai |  |  |  | as the guardians of Haena | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as guardian=Attribute |
| 2 | **come** | past · perfect | Three of the women of Kauai |  |  | the halau |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into halau=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **take** | participle | Three of the women of Kauai *not said here* | Pele's places |  | Lohiau |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |

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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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