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title: The story of the journey of the youngest sister of Pele, the goddess… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The story of the journey of the youngest sister of Pele, the goddess of volcanic fires, when seeking a husband for her oldest sister, has a simple and yet exceedingly human element in the incidents which cluster around the finding of a faithful follower and friend. Who acts: story, incidents. A sent
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 1

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The story of the journey of the youngest sister of Pele, the goddess of volcanic fires, when seeking a husband for her oldest sister, has a simple and yet exceedingly human element in the incidents which cluster around the finding of a faithful follower and friend.

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**Who acts:** story, incidents · **What happens:** seek, have, cluster, journey, find · **To what, where:** husband, simple element, incidents, finding, youngest sister, faithful follower

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, incidents), 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:pg66516:17:1
# text = The story of the journey of the youngest sister of Pele, the goddess of volcanic fires, when seeking a husband for her oldest sister, has a simple and yet exceedingly human element in the incidents which cluster around the finding of a faithful follower and friend.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
20	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
28	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
30	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
35	element	element	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
39	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
40	cluster	cluster	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
41	around	around	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	finding	finding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	follower	follower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | gerund |  | a husband |  |  |  | for story's oldest sister | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent husband=Location for sister=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | the story of the journey of the youngest sister of Pele | a simple element |  | the incidents |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent element=Patient |
| 3 | **cluster** | present | the incidents |  |  | the finding of a faithful follower and friend |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **journey** |  |  | the youngest sister of Pele |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **find** |  |  | a faithful follower and friend |  |  |  |  | nom finding «act 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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