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title: And woe to this island if ever a woman should climb to the dwelling… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: And woe to this island if ever a woman should climb to the dwelling of Peelè the Goddess! 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 119

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And woe to this island if ever a woman should climb to the dwelling of Peelè the Goddess!

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** climb · **To what, where:** woe

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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:pg66516:23:119
# text = And woe to this island if ever a woman should climb to the dwelling of Peelè the Goddess!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
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	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Peelè	Peelè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Goddess	Goddess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | should | a woman | woe to this island *not said here* |  |  |  | to the dwelling of Peelè *result* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient woe=Extent to dwelling=Result |

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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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