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title: She wore the finest skirt she had woven from lauhala leaves. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: She wore the finest skirt she had woven from lauhala leaves. Who acts: torrent. 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 86

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She wore the finest skirt she had woven from lauhala leaves.

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**Who acts:** torrent · **What happens:** wear, weave · **To what, where:** finest skirt, lauhala leaves

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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 (torrent), 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:pg66516:15:86
# text = She wore the finest skirt she had woven from lauhala leaves.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	skirt	skirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	lauhala	lauhala	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | torrent | the finest skirt |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skirt=Theme |
| 2 | **weave** | past · perfect | torrent | the finest skirt *not said here* |  | lauhala leaves |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent skirt=Product from leaf=Material |

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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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