---
title: The only living being they found was a solitary hog, in company with… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The only living being they found was a solitary hog, in company with one of the families which had been so suddenly bereft of life. Who acts: women, only living, families. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, with its depend
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/21/50/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mytholo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/) / [The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/21/) / 50

# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 50

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The only living being they found was a solitary hog, in company with one of the families which had been so suddenly bereft of life.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** women, only living, families · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** only living, solitary hog

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (women, only living, families), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66516:21:50
# text = The only living being they found was a solitary hog, in company with one of the families which had been so suddenly bereft of life.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	solitary	solitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hog	hog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	cop	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	bereft	bereft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	acl:relcl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund | women *= woman* | the only living *not said here* |  |  |  | find *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the only living | a solitary hog |  |  |  | company with one of the families *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect | the families |  |  |  |  | of life; bereft, suddenly *property* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/21/49/)
- next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/21/51/)
- ↑ back to [The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/21/)