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title: On each island she slew dragons which had come from the ancient trad… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: On each island she slew dragons which had come from the ancient traditional home of the Polynesians, India. Who acts: substance, dragons. 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 74

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On each island she slew dragons which had come from the ancient traditional home of the Polynesians, India.

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**Who acts:** substance, dragons · **What happens:** slay, come · **To what, where:** dragons, island, ancient traditional home

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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 (substance, dragons), 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:pg66516:20:74
# text = On each island she slew dragons which had come from the ancient traditional home of the Polynesians, India.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Polynesians	Polynesian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slay** | past | substance | dragons |  | each island |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | past · perfect | dragons |  |  | the ancient traditional home of the Polynesians and India |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from home=Initial\_Location |

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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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