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title: “Woe to this island if ever a woman should handle or gather the berr… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: “Woe to this island if ever a woman should handle or gather the berries of Peelè! Who acts: woman. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 117

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“Woe to this island if ever a woman should handle or gather the berries of Peelè!

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** handle, gather · **To what, where:** Woe, berries

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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 (woman), 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:pg66516:23:117
# text = “Woe to this island if ever a woman should handle or gather the berries of Peelè!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	handle	handle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Peelè	Peelè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **handle** *in a quote* | should | a woman | Woe to this island *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woe=Theme |
| 2 | **gather** *in a quote* | infinitive | a woman *not said here* | the berries of Peelè |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Theme |

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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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