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title: You will destroy inland; you will destroy toward the sea; but you mu… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: You will destroy inland; you will destroy toward the sea; but you must not touch my friend—my Hopoe. Who acts: You. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 41

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You will destroy inland; you will destroy toward the sea; but you must not touch my friend—my Hopoe.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** destroy, not touch · **To what, where:** friend

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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 (You), 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:pg66516:15:41
# text = You will destroy inland; you will destroy toward the sea; but you must not touch my friend—my Hopoe.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	inland	inland	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	Hopoe	Hopoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** | future | You |  |  |  |  | inland *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **destroy** | future | you |  |  |  |  | toward the sea | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **touch** | must | you | my friend |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme friend=Co-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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