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title: The fern servants of Pau-o-palae carried the bundle of the body down… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The fern servants of Pau-o-palae carried the bundle of the body down to the house. Who acts: fern servants. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 156

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The fern servants of Pau-o-palae carried the bundle of the body down to the house.

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**Who acts:** fern servants · **What happens:** carry · **To what, where:** bundle, house

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fern servants), 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:pg66516:20:156
# text = The fern servants of Pau-o-palae carried the bundle of the body down to the house.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fern	fern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Pau	Pau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	10	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	palae	palae	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | the fern servants of Pau | the bundle of the body |  | the house |  | palae *nsubj*; down *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme to house=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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