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title: After a time various objects began to have worshippers who became pr… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: After a time various objects began to have worshippers who became priests supposed to be endowed with the qualities of the objects worshipped. Who acts: various objects, worshippers, qualities. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kup
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 14

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After a time various objects began to have worshippers who became priests supposed to be endowed with the qualities of the objects worshipped.

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**Who acts:** various objects, worshippers, qualities · **What happens:** begin, have, become, suppose, endow, worshipp · **To what, where:** worshippers, priests

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (various objects, worshippers, qualities), 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:pg66516:19:14
# text = After a time various objects began to have worshippers who became priests supposed to be endowed with the qualities of the objects worshipped.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	worshippers	worshipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	xcomp	_	_
13	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	endowed	endow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	qualities	quality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
23	worshipped	worshipp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **begin** | past | various objects |  |  |  | time |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | various objects *not said here* | worshippers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worshipper=Patient |
| 3 | **become** | past | worshippers | priests |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **suppose** | participle |  | priests *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **endow** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with the qualities | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with quality=Theme |
| 6 | **worshipp** | past | the qualities *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the objects | 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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