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title: The truth was that Wahine-omao of the light skin needed food like an… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The truth was that Wahine-omao of the light skin needed food like any one not possessing semi-divine powers. Who acts: truth, one. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 10

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The truth was that Wahine-omao of the light skin needed food like any one not possessing semi-divine powers.

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**Who acts:** truth, one · **What happens:** be, not possess · **To what, where:** semi-divine powers

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka Catching a Ghost. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (truth, one), 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:pg66516:18:10
# text = The truth was that Wahine-omao of the light skin needed food like any one not possessing semi-divine powers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
5	Wahine	Wahine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	omao	omao	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	possessing	possess	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	semi-divine	semi-divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the truth |  |  |  |  | like any one; Wahine omao of the light skin *nsubj*; food *obj*; need *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **possess** | gerund | any one *not said here* | semi-divine powers |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot power=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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