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title: Throughout Polynesia the mo-o, or moko, remained for centuries in th… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Throughout Polynesia the mo-o, or moko, remained for centuries in the minds of the natives of different island groups as their most dreadful enemy, living in deep pools and sluggish streams. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, w
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 21

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Throughout Polynesia the mo-o, or moko, remained for centuries in the minds of the natives of different island groups as their most dreadful enemy, living in deep pools and sluggish streams.

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**What happens:** remain, live, mind · **To what, where:** moko, minds, deep pools, natives

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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: 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:pg66516:16:21
# text = Throughout Polynesia the mo-o, or moko, remained for centuries in the minds of the natives of different island groups as their most dreadful enemy, living in deep pools and sluggish streams.
1	Throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Polynesia	Polynesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	o	o	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	moko	moko	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	natives	native	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
26	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
27	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	pools	pool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	sluggish	sluggish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | participle |  | moko throughout Polynesia  the mo *not said here* |  | the minds of the natives of different island groups | century | as natives's most dreadful enemy | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mind=Location |
| 2 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  | deep pools and sluggish streams |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pool=Location |
| 4 | **mind** |  |  | the natives of different island groups |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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