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title: She told the story of the journey after Lohiau and the possibility o… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: She told the story of the journey after Lohiau and the possibility of seeking the wandering ghost. Who acts: omao, possibility. 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 240

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She told the story of the journey after Lohiau and the possibility of seeking the wandering ghost.

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**Who acts:** omao, possibility · **What happens:** tell, seek · **To what, where:** story, wandering ghost · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (omao, possibility), 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:pg66516:20:240
# text = She told the story of the journey after Lohiau and the possibility of seeking the wandering ghost.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Lohiau	Lohiau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	possibility	possibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	wandering	wandering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | omao | the story of the journey after Lohiau and the possibility |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 2 | **seek** | gerund | the possibility *not said here* | the wandering ghost |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ghost=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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