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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 47

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This child after death was given to Pele with sacrifices and ceremonies which would make it one of the ghost-gods connected with the Pele family.

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**Who acts:** ceremonies · **What happens:** give, make, connect · **To what, where:** child, Pele, ghost gods

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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 (ceremonies), 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:pg66516:22:47
# text = This child after death was given to Pele with sacrifices and ceremonies which would make it one of the ghost-gods connected with the Pele family.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sacrifices	sacrifice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	xcomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
23	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · passive |  | this child after death | Pele |  |  | with sacrifices and ceremonies | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to pele=Recipient |
| 2 | **make** | would | ceremonies | child |  |  |  | one of the ghost gods *xcomp* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 3 | **connect** | participle |  | the ghost gods *not said here* |  |  |  | with the Pele family | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with family=Co-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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