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title: The priestess was quick-witted and said that truly she had done some… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The priestess was quick-witted and said that truly she had done some harm, but the rum of the foreigners was far more destructive. Who acts: priestess, rum. 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 26

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The priestess was quick-witted and said that truly she had done some harm, but the rum of the foreigners was far more destructive.

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**Who acts:** priestess, rum · **What happens:** be, say, do · **To what, where:** harm · **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 (priestess, rum), 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:pg66516:23:26
# text = The priestess was quick-witted and said that truly she had done some harm, but the rum of the foreigners was far more destructive.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	priestess	priestess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	witted	witted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rum	rum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	foreigners	foreigner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
26	destructive	destructive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the priestess |  |  |  |  | witted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the priestess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | past · perfect | priestess | some harm |  |  |  | truly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is** | past | the rum of the foreigners |  |  |  |  | destructive *property* | 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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