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title: The temple was apparently deserted at the time of the overthrow of t… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The temple was apparently deserted at the time of the overthrow of the tabu in 1819, and the priests had gone to the lower and better cultivated lands of Puna, where they had their headquarters. Who acts: priests. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiola
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 54

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The temple was apparently deserted at the time of the overthrow of the tabu in 1819, and the priests had gone to the lower and better cultivated lands of Puna, where they had their headquarters.

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**Who acts:** priests · **What happens:** desert, go, cultivate, have, overthrow · **To what, where:** temple, lower lands, headquarters, tabu

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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 (priests), 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:pg66516:23:54
# text = The temple was apparently deserted at the time of the overthrow of the tabu in 1819, and the priests had gone to the lower and better cultivated lands of Puna, where they had their headquarters.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	apparently	apparently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	deserted	desert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	overthrow	overthrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tabu	tabu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1819	1819	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
25	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
28	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
29	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Puna	Puna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	35	advmod	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	headquarters	headquarters	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **desert** | past · passive |  | the temple |  |  | time | apparently *property* | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: subject=Source |
| 2 | **go** | past · perfect | the priests |  |  | the lower lands of Puna |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **cultivate** | participle | the priests *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | past | Priests *= priest* | Priests's headquarters |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headquarters=Patient |
| 5 | **overthrow** |  |  | the tabu in 1819 |  |  |  |  | nom overthrow «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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