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title: The gnomes and dragons of valley and forest tried to destroy her. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The gnomes and dragons of valley and forest tried to destroy her. Who acts: gnomes. 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 64

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The gnomes and dragons of valley and forest tried to destroy her.

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**Who acts:** gnomes · **What happens:** try, destroy · **To what, where:** Valley

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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 (gnomes), 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:pg66516:20:64
# text = The gnomes and dragons of valley and forest tried to destroy her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gnomes	gnome	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | the gnomes of valley and forest and dragons |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **destroy** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the gnomes of valley and forest and dragons *not said here* | Valley |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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