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title: The whirlwind was one of the earth-monsters which even the sister of… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The whirlwind was one of the earth-monsters which even the sister of the goddess of volcanoes could not destroy. Who acts: whirlwind, sister. 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 61

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The whirlwind was one of the earth-monsters which even the sister of the goddess of volcanoes could not destroy.

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**Who acts:** whirlwind, sister · **What happens:** be, not destroy · **To what, where:** one, earth monsters

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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 (whirlwind, sister), 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:pg66516:20:61
# text = The whirlwind was one of the earth-monsters which even the sister of the goddess of volcanoes could not destroy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	monsters	monster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the whirlwind | one |  |  |  | of the earth monsters | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **destroy** | could | the sister of the goddess of volcanoes | the earth monsters |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |

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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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