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title: They had descendants who lived along the seacoast or in out-of-the-w… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: They had descendants who lived along the seacoast or in out-of-the-way places inland. Who acts: monsters, descendants. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 3

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They had descendants who lived along the seacoast or in out-of-the-way places inland.

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**Who acts:** monsters, descendants · **What happens:** have, live · **To what, where:** descendants, way places

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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 (monsters, descendants), 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:pg66516:19:3
# text = They had descendants who lived along the seacoast or in out-of-the-way places inland.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	descendants	descendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	along	along	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	seacoast	seacoast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
19	inland	inland	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | monsters *= monster* | descendants |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent descendant=Patient |
| 2 | **live** | past | descendants |  |  | way places |  | along the seacoast | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |

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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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