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title: Great, and greater, and greatest of women, island heroine Kapiolani… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Great, and greater, and greatest of women, island heroine Kapiolani Clomb the mountain, and flung the berries and dared the Goddess, and freed the people Of Hawa-i-ee! Who acts: i. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele, with its dependency 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 110

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Great, and greater, and greatest of women, island heroine Kapiolani Clomb the mountain, and flung the berries and dared the Goddess, and freed the people Of Hawa-i-ee!

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**Who acts:** i · **What happens:** fling, dare, free, ee · **To what, where:** berries, Goddess, people

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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 (i), 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:pg66516:23:110
# text = Great, and greater, and greatest of women, island heroine Kapiolani Clomb the mountain, and flung the berries and dared the Goddess, and freed the people Of Hawa-i-ee!
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	heroine	heroine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	Kapiolani	Kapiolani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	Clomb	Clomb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Goddess	Goddess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	freed	free	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Hawa	Hawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	ee	ee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fling** | past |  | the berries |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Theme |
| 2 | **dare** | past |  |  | the Goddess |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goddess=Recipient |
| 3 | **free** | past |  | the people of Hawa |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer people=Source |
| 4 | **ee** |  | i |  |  |  |  |  | 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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