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title: Their beauty was like that of Pele save for the paleness of their sk… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Their beauty was like that of Pele save for the paleness of their skins, which had come from their power to appear in different forms, according to their pleasure. Who acts: beauty, skins, people. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep, with 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 96

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Their beauty was like that of Pele save for the paleness of their skins, which had come from their power to appear in different forms, according to their pleasure.

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**Who acts:** beauty, skins, people · **What happens:** be, come, appear, accord, please · **To what, where:** power, different forms

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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 (beauty, skins, 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:pg66516:14:96
# text = Their beauty was like that of Pele save for the paleness of their skins, which had come from their power to appear in different forms, according to their pleasure.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	save	save	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	paleness	paleness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	case	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | people's beauty |  |  |  |  | for the paleness of people's skins and people's pleasure; that of Pele *nsubj*; save *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past · perfect | people's skins and people's pleasure |  |  | people's power |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from power=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **appear** | to-infinitive | people's skins and people's pleasure *not said here* |  |  | different forms |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in form=Location |
| 4 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **please** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom pleasure «feeling 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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