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title: I stand, I journey while you remain, O women with bowed heads. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: I stand, I journey while you remain, O women with bowed heads. Who acts: I, 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 54

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I stand, I journey while you remain, O women with bowed heads.

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** stand, journey, remain, bow

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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), 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:pg66516:15:54
# text = I stand, I journey while you remain, O women with bowed heads.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	11	case	_	_
11	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	bowed	bow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **journey** |  | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **remain** | present | you |  |  |  |  | of women with bowed heads | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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