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title: Pele began to eat Hue-hue, a noted breadfruit [19] forest owned by K… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Pele began to eat Hue-hue, a noted breadfruit [19] forest owned by Kamehameha. Who acts: Pele. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 17

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Pele began to eat Hue-hue, a noted breadfruit \[19\] forest owned by Kamehameha.

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**Who acts:** Pele · **What happens:** begin, eat, note, own · **To what, where:** Hue breadfruit forest

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pele), 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:pg66516:22:17
# text = Pele began to eat Hue-hue, a noted breadfruit [19] forest owned by Kamehameha.
1	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	Hue	Hue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	hue	hue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	noted	note	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	breadfruit	breadfruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
12	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	19	19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
16	owned	own	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Kamehameha	Kamehameha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Pele |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Pele *not said here* | Hue breadfruit forest |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Patient |
| 3 | **note** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **own** | participle |  | Hue breadfruit forest *not said here* |  |  |  | Kamehameha *obl:agent* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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