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title: The people followed their chiefess some distance with prayers and te… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The people followed their chiefess some distance with prayers and tears. Who acts: people. 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 44

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The people followed their chiefess some distance with prayers and tears.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** follow · **To what, where:** chiefess

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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 (people), 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:pg66516:23:44
# text = The people followed their chiefess some distance with prayers and tears.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	chiefess	chiefess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | the people | people's chiefess |  |  |  | some distance *obj* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent chiefess=Theme distance=Attribute |

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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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