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title: The prophet said: “From the old time even until now there has been n… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The prophet said: “From the old time even until now there has been no prophet or priest of the mo-o or dragon clan who has done this thing. Who acts: prophet, dragon clan. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, with its 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 36

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The prophet said: “From the old time even until now there has been no prophet or priest of the mo-o or dragon clan who has done this thing.

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**Who acts:** prophet, dragon clan · **What happens:** say, have, be, do · **To what, where:** prophet, thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (prophet, dragon clan), 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:pg66516:22:36
# text = The prophet said: “From the old time even until now there has been no prophet or priest of the mo-o or dragon clan who has done this thing.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	From	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	until	until	ADP	IN	_	9	conj	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the prophet |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the prophet *not said here* |  |  | there | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | participle |  | no prophet or priest of the mo o or dragon clan |  |  |  | priest of the mo o or dragon clan *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect | dragon clan | this thing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |

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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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