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title: This mouth was between the shoulders and was concealed by a cape thr… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: This mouth was between the shoulders and was concealed by a cape thrown carefully over the back. Who acts: mouth, cape. 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 6

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This mouth was between the shoulders and was concealed by a cape thrown carefully over the back.

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**Who acts:** mouth, cape · **What happens:** be, conceal, throw · **To what, where:** cape, back

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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 (mouth, cape), 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:pg66516:19:6
# text = This mouth was between the shoulders and was concealed by a cape thrown carefully over the back.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cape	cape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this mouth |  |  |  |  | between the shoulders | tree rules |
| 2 | **conceal** | past · passive | a cape |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **throw** | participle |  | a cape *not said here* |  | the back |  | carefully *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over back=Destination |

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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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