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title: Kaahumanu, the queen, and many other high chiefs and chiefesses thou… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Kaahumanu, the queen, and many other high chiefs and chiefesses thought they would go and die with him if Pele should persist in punishing him. Who acts: many other high chiefs, chiefs, Pele. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Destruction of Kamehameha’s F
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 45

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Kaahumanu, the queen, and many other high chiefs and chiefesses thought they would go and die with him if Pele should persist in punishing him.

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**Who acts:** many other high chiefs, chiefs, Pele · **What happens:** think, go, die, persist, punish · **To what, where:** Kaahumanu, queen · **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 (many other high chiefs, chiefs, 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:pg66516:22:45
# text = Kaahumanu, the queen, and many other high chiefs and chiefesses thought they would go and die with him if Pele should persist in punishing him.
1	Kaahumanu	Kaahumanu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	chiefesses	chiefess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	persist	persist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
25	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	punishing	punish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | many other high chiefs and chiefesses |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | would | chiefs *= chief* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **die** | infinitive | chiefs *= chief* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Kaahumanu | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **persist** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | Pele |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **punish** | gerund | Pele *not said here* | Kaahumanu |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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