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title: She had broken her most solemn promise to Hiiaka. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: She had broken her most solemn promise to Hiiaka. Who acts: Pele. 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 184

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She had broken her most solemn promise to Hiiaka.

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**Who acts:** Pele · **What happens:** break, promise · **To what, where:** solemn promise

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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 (Pele), 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:pg66516:20:184
# text = She had broken her most solemn promise to Hiiaka.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past · perfect | Pele | Pele's solemn promise |  |  |  | to Hiiaka *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent promise=Patient to hiiaka=Result |
| 2 | **promise** |  | Pele |  |  |  |  | to Hiiaka | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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