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title: Pele had come from the islands of the south seas and had found the H… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Pele had come from the islands of the south seas and had found the Hawaiian Islands as they are at the present day. Who acts: Pele, island. 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 cl
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 7

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Pele had come from the islands of the south seas and had found the Hawaiian Islands as they are at the present day.

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**Who acts:** Pele, island · **What happens:** come, find, be · **To what, where:** islands, Hawaiian Islands

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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, island), 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:pg66516:15:7
# text = Pele had come from the islands of the south seas and had found the Hawaiian Islands as they are at the present day.
1	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · perfect | Pele |  |  | the islands of the south seas |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from island=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **find** | past · perfect | Pele *not said here* | the Hawaiian Islands |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | island |  |  |  | at the present day |  | tree rules |

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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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