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title: The people with Kapiolani were hushed into a terrified silence, but… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The people with Kapiolani were hushed into a terrified silence, but she listened quietly until the priestess, carried beyond her depth, read a confused mass of jumbled words, and unintelligible noises, which she called “The dialect of the ancient Pele.” Who acts: Kapiolani. A sentence of «Hawaiian L
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 63

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The people with Kapiolani were hushed into a terrified silence, but she listened quietly until the priestess, carried beyond her depth, read a confused mass of jumbled words, and unintelligible noises, which she called “The dialect of the ancient Pele.”

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**Who acts:** Kapiolani · **What happens:** hush, listen, carry, read, jumble, call · **To what, where:** people, terrified silence, confused mass, unintelligible noises · **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 (Kapiolani), 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:pg66516:23:63
# text = The people with Kapiolani were hushed into a terrified silence, but she listened quietly until the priestess, carried beyond her depth, read a confused mass of jumbled words, and unintelligible noises, which she called “The dialect of the ancient Pele.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Kapiolani	Kapiolani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	hushed	hush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	until	until	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	priestess	priestess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	depth	depth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	confused	confused	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	jumbled	jumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	unintelligible	unintelligible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	noises	noise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	obj	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
40	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	dialect	dialect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	xcomp	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	Pele	pele	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hush** | past · passive |  | the people with Kapiolani |  | a terrified silence |  | unintelligible noises *obl* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **listen** | past | Kapiolani |  |  |  | until the priestess | quietly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **carry** | past | Kapiolani *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beyond priestess's depth | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **read** | infinitive | Kapiolani *not said here* | a confused mass of jumbled words |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mass=Topic |
| 5 | **jumble** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **call** | past | Kapiolani | unintelligible noises |  |  |  | the dialect of the ancient Pele *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient |

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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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