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title: The girl from the south seas promised to care for the Hawaiian girl… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The girl from the south seas promised to care for the Hawaiian girl whose home was in the midst of volcanic fires, and the Hawaiian gave pledge to aid and serve as best she could. Who acts: girl, home, Hawaiian. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, th
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 19

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The girl from the south seas promised to care for the Hawaiian girl whose home was in the midst of volcanic fires, and the Hawaiian gave pledge to aid and serve as best she could.

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**Who acts:** girl, home, Hawaiian · **What happens:** promise, care, be, give, aid, serve · **To what, where:** midst, pledge, best

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, home, Hawaiian), 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:pg66516:15:19
# text = The girl from the south seas promised to care for the Hawaiian girl whose home was in the midst of volcanic fires, and the Hawaiian gave pledge to aid and serve as best she could.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	acl:relcl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
28	pledge	pledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	aid	aid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
33	as	as	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	obj	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the girl from the south seas |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **care** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the girl from the south seas *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the Hawaiian girl | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for girl=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the midst's home |  |  | the midst |  | of volcanic fires | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | past | the Hawaiian | pledge |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **aid** | to-infinitive | the Hawaiian *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **serve** | infinitive | the Hawaiian *not said here* | best |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Attribute |

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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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