--- title: All seemed unavailing until one day King Kamehameha went to the flow… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics description: All seemed unavailing until one day King Kamehameha went to the flowing lava, attended by a large retinue of chiefs and priests, and as the most valuable offering he could make, cut off part of his own hair which was always considered sacred and threw it into the torrent. Who acts: King. 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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 (King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66516:22:8 # text = All seemed unavailing until one day King Kamehameha went to the flowing lava, attended by a large retinue of chiefs and priests, and as the most valuable offering he could make, cut off part of his own hair which was always considered sacred and threw it into the torrent. 1 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 2 advmod _ _ 2 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 unavailing unavailing NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 until until SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 Kamehameha Kamehameha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ _ 9 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 flowing flow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 amod _ _ 13 lava lava NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 attended attend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 retinue retinue NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 chiefs chief NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 priests priest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 29 advmod _ _ 29 valuable valuable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 offering offering NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 off off ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 40 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 42 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 45 nsubj:pass _ _ 43 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux:pass _ _ 44 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 45 advmod _ _ 45 considered consider VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 acl:relcl _ _ 46 sacred sacred ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 xcomp _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 conj _ _ 49 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obj _ _ 50 into into ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 torrent torrent NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** | past | | unavailing | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme unavailing=Attribute | | 2 | **go** | past | King | | | the flowing lava | day | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to lava=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **flow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **attend** | participle | | the flowing lava *not said here* | | | | by a large retinue of chiefs and priests | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by retinue=Theme | | 5 | **make** | could | King | | | | | as the valuable offering | tree rules | | 6 | **cut off** | infinitive | King *not said here* | part of King's own hair | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector part=Eventuality | | 7 | **consider** | past · passive | | King's own hair | | | | always, sacred *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | | 8 | **throw** | past | | part | | | | into the torrent *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into torrent=Result | 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. **Text:** «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. 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