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title: It was a queen of highest legendary honor with one of her most worth… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a queen of highest legendary honor with one of her most worthy attendants setting forth on a strange quest through lands abounding in dangers and adventures. Who acts: form, most worthy attendants, lands. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka’s 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 13

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It was a queen of highest legendary honor with one of her most worthy attendants setting forth on a strange quest through lands abounding in dangers and adventures.

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**Who acts:** form, most worthy attendants, lands · **What happens:** be, set, abound · **To what, where:** queen, strange quest, dangers

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (form, most worthy attendants, lands), 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:pg66516:16:13
# text = It was a queen of highest legendary honor with one of her most worthy attendants setting forth on a strange quest through lands abounding in dangers and adventures.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
7	legendary	legendary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
14	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
16	setting	set	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
24	abounding	abound	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	dangers	danger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | form | a queen |  |  |  | of highest legendary honor with one of Pau's most worthy attendants | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** | gerund | Pau's most worthy attendants *not said here* |  |  | a strange quest |  | through lands; forth *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on quest=Destination |
| 3 | **abound** | gerund | lands *not said here* |  |  | dangers and adventures |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in danger=Location |

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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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