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title: I go after your husband but I lay my charge upon you: You must take… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: I go after your husband but I lay my charge upon you: You must take care of my lehua forest and not permit it to be injured. Who acts: I, You, my. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 37

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I go after your husband but I lay my charge upon you: You must take care of my lehua forest and not permit it to be injured.

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**Who acts:** I, You, my · **What happens:** go, lie, take, not permit, injure, charge · **To what, where:** charge, care

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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 (I, You, my), 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:pg66516:15:37
# text = I go after your husband but I lay my charge upon you: You must take care of my lehua forest and not permit it to be injured.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
17	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	lehua	lehua	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	permit	permit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	injured	injure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | I |  |  |  | after your husband |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | past | I | my charge |  |  |  | upon you | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location charge=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | must | You | care |  |  |  | of my lehua forest | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of forest=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **not** **permit** | infinitive | You *not said here* | care |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **injure** | to-infinitive · passive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **charge** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act 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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