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title: A prophet told Kaahumanu: “The Pele who is in the front of this outb… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: A prophet told Kaahumanu: “The Pele who is in the front of this outburst of fire is not strange to us. Who acts: prophet, 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 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 48

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A prophet told Kaahumanu: “The Pele who is in the front of this outburst of fire is not strange to us.

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**Who acts:** prophet, Pele · **What happens:** tell, be, not be · **To what, where:** Kaahumanu, front, us · **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, 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:pg66516:22:48
# text = A prophet told Kaahumanu: “The Pele who is in the front of this outburst of fire is not strange to us.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Kaahumanu	Kaahumanu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	outburst	outburst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a prophet |  | Kaahumanu |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent kaahumanu=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Pele |  |  | the front |  | of this outburst of fire; who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  | us |  |  | strange *property* | tree rules |

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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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