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title: She forbade her to approach any nearer to the volcano on pain of dea… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: She forbade her to approach any nearer to the volcano on pain of death at the hands of the furious goddess Pele. Who acts: priestess. 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 57

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She forbade her to approach any nearer to the volcano on pain of death at the hands of the furious goddess Pele.

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**Who acts:** priestess · **What happens:** forbid, approach, pain · **To what, where:** Kapiolani, any, pain, death

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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), 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:pg66516:23:57
# text = She forbade her to approach any nearer to the volcano on pain of death at the hands of the furious goddess Pele.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	forbade	forbid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	approach	approach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	volcano	volcano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forbid** | past | priestess | Kapiolani |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **approach** | to-infinitive | priestess *not said here* | any |  | pain of death |  | to the volcano; at the hands of the furious goddess | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme |
| 3 | **pain** |  |  | death |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state 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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