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title: Therefore she laid upon Pele the responsibility of caring for and pr… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore she laid upon Pele the responsibility of caring for and protecting Hopoe. Who acts: Pele, responsibility. 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 48

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Therefore she laid upon Pele the responsibility of caring for and protecting Hopoe.

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**Who acts:** Pele, responsibility · **What happens:** lay, care, protect · **To what, where:** responsibility, Hopoe

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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 (Pele, responsibility), 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:pg66516:15:48
# text = Therefore she laid upon Pele the responsibility of caring for and protecting Hopoe.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	responsibility	responsibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	caring	care	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	protecting	protect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	conj	_	_
13	Hopoe	Hopoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past | Pele | the responsibility |  |  |  | upon Pele; therefore *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent responsibility=Theme upon pele=Destination |
| 2 | **care** | gerund | the responsibility *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **protect** | gerund | the responsibility *not said here* |  | Hopoe |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hopoe=Beneficiary |

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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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