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title: The people greeted their coming with great applause, for they were v… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The people greeted their coming with great applause, for they were very beautiful and were also possessed of supernatural power. Who acts: people. 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 cl
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 95

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The people greeted their coming with great applause, for they were very beautiful and were also possessed of supernatural power.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** greet, come, be, possess · **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 (people), 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:pg66516:14:95
# text = The people greeted their coming with great applause, for they were very beautiful and were also possessed of supernatural power.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	greeted	greet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	applause	applause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	possessed	possess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past | the people |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | people |  |  |  |  | with great applause | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | people |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **possess** | past · passive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of supernatural power | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP» |

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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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