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title: Almost exactly thirty-four years before Kapiolani defied the worship… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Almost exactly thirty-four years before Kapiolani defied the worship of the fire-goddess Pele, Keoua, a high chief, lost a large part of his army near the volcano Kilauea. Who acts: Kapiolani, fire goddess. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilati
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 1

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Almost exactly thirty-four years before Kapiolani defied the worship of the fire-goddess Pele, Keoua, a high chief, lost a large part of his army near the volcano Kilauea.

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**Who acts:** Kapiolani, fire goddess · **What happens:** defy, lose, worship · **To what, where:** worship, large part, volcano

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kapiolani, fire goddess), 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:pg66516:21:1
# text = Almost exactly thirty-four years before Kapiolani defied the worship of the fire-goddess Pele, Keoua, a high chief, lost a large part of his army near the volcano Kilauea.
1	Almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	Kapiolani	Kapiolani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	defied	defy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	worship	worship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Keoua	Keoua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	near	near	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	volcano	volcano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
35	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **defy** | past | Kapiolani | the worship of the fire goddess |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | past | Kapiolani *not said here* | a large part of Kapiolani's army |  | the volcano |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality |
| 3 | **worship** |  | the fire goddess |  |  |  |  |  | nom worship «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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