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title: Hopoe was the last object of Pele’s anger at her younger sister, but… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Hopoe was the last object of Pele’s anger at her younger sister, but there was no escape. Who acts: Hopoe, escape, Pele. 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 83

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Hopoe was the last object of Pele’s anger at her younger sister, but there was no escape.

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**Who acts:** Hopoe, escape, Pele · **What happens:** be, anger · **To what, where:** last object

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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 (Hopoe, escape, Pele), 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:pg66516:15:83
# text = Hopoe was the last object of Pele’s anger at her younger sister, but there was no escape.
1	Hopoe	Hopoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Hopoe | the last object |  |  |  | of Pele's anger at Pele's younger sister | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past | no escape |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **anger** |  | Pele |  |  |  |  | at Pele's younger sister | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent at=obl |

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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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