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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 109

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Noble the Saxon who hurled at his Idol a valorous weapon in olden England!

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**Who acts:** Noble · **What happens:** hurl · **To what, where:** valorous weapon, Idol

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Noble), 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:pg66516:23:109
# text = Noble the Saxon who hurled at his Idol a valorous weapon in olden England!
1	Noble	Noble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Saxon	Saxon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hurled	hurl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	Idol	idol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	valorous	valorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	weapon	weapon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	olden	olden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurl** | past | Noble | a valorous weapon |  | Noble's Idol |  | in olden England; who *nsubj* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme at idol=Destination |

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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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