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title: It was Pele who was always growing more and more jealous and angry w… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: It was Pele who was always growing more and more jealous and angry with Hiiaka. Who acts: tabu, Pele. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 63

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It was Pele who was always growing more and more jealous and angry with Hiiaka.

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**Who acts:** tabu, Pele · **What happens:** be, grow · **To what, where:** Pele, more

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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 (tabu, Pele), 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:pg66516:17:63
# text = It was Pele who was always growing more and more jealous and angry with Hiiaka.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is a** | past | tabu | Pele |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | past · progressive | Pele | more |  |  |  | always *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme |

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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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