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title: They were the deceitful, treacherous fairies, living in the most bea… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: They were the deceitful, treacherous fairies, living in the most beautiful places of the forest or glen, often appearing as human beings but always having some defect in some part of the body. Who acts: eepas, some. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiak
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 17

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They were the deceitful, treacherous fairies, living in the most beautiful places of the forest or glen, often appearing as human beings but always having some defect in some part of the body.

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**Who acts:** eepas, some · **What happens:** live, appear, have, defect · **To what, where:** beautiful places, part

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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 (eepas, some), 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:pg66516:16:17
# text = They were the deceitful, treacherous fairies, living in the most beautiful places of the forest or glen, often appearing as human beings but always having some defect in some part of the body.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	deceitful	deceitful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	treacherous	treacherous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	13	advmod	_	_
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	glen	glen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	often	often	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	appearing	appear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	28	advmod	_	_
28	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	nsubj	_	_
30	defect	defect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	xcomp	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past · progressive | eepas *= eepa* |  |  | the beautiful places of the forest or glen |  | the deceitful treacherous fairies *nsubj* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
| 2 | **appear** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | as human beings; often *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | eepas *= eepa* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **defect** | present | some |  |  | some part of the body |  |  | 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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