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title: The natives were astonished to see the perfect safety of the mission… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The natives were astonished to see the perfect safety of the missionaries, although the worship and tabus of Pele were absolutely ignored. Who acts: natives. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 17

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The natives were astonished to see the perfect safety of the missionaries, although the worship and tabus of Pele were absolutely ignored.

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**Who acts:** natives · **What happens:** be, see, ignore · **To what, where:** perfect safety, worship · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (natives), 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:pg66516:23:17
# text = The natives were astonished to see the perfect safety of the missionaries, although the worship and tabus of Pele were absolutely ignored.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	natives	native	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	worship	worship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	tabus	tabus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	ignored	ignore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the natives |  |  |  |  | astonished *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | the natives *not said here* | the perfect safety of the missionaries |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ignore** | past · passive |  | the worship and tabus of Pele |  |  |  | absolutely *property* | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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