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description: Now, as they stood on the brink of the crater with all the proof of Pele’s oath-breaking around them Hiiaka gave way entirely. Who acts: bravery, proof. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 199

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Now, as they stood on the brink of the crater with all the proof of Pele’s oath-breaking around them Hiiaka gave way entirely.

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**Who acts:** bravery, proof · **What happens:** stand, break, give · **To what, where:** brink, Hiiaka, way

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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 (bravery, proof), 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:pg66516:20:199
# text = Now, as they stood on the brink of the crater with all the proof of Pele’s oath-breaking around them Hiiaka gave way entirely.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	brink	brink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	crater	crater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
22	around	around	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | bravery |  |  | the brink of the crater |  | with all proof | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on brink=Location |
| 2 | **break** | gerund | all proof *not said here* | Hiiaka |  |  |  | around bravery; Pele *nmod:poss*; oath *compound* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hiiaka=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | past |  | way |  |  | now | entirely *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |

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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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