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title: From well-known localities hundreds of fishermen gather spoil for th… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: From well-known localities hundreds of fishermen gather spoil for the sustenance of life for themselves and their friends. Who acts: hundreds. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Islands, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 19

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From well-known localities hundreds of fishermen gather spoil for the sustenance of life for themselves and their friends.

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**Who acts:** hundreds · **What happens:** know, gather · **To what, where:** spoil, known localities

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Islands. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundreds), 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:pg66516:2:19
# text = From well-known localities hundreds of fishermen gather spoil for the sustenance of life for themselves and their friends.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	localities	locality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
6	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	gather	gather	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	spoil	spoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sustenance	sustenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **gather** | present | hundreds of fishermen | spoil |  | known localities |  | for the sustenance of life; for hundreds *= hundred* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent spoil=Theme from locality=Source for sustenance=Asset |

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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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