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title: She answered, ‘If I am destroyed, then you may all believe in Pele,… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: She answered, ‘If I am destroyed, then you may all believe in Pele, but if I am not, you must all turn to the true writings.’” Who acts: Mr., you. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 76

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She answered, ‘If I am destroyed, then you may all believe in Pele, but if I am not, you must all turn to the true writings.’”

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**Who acts:** Mr., you · **What happens:** answer, destroy, believe, turn · **To what, where:** I, Pele, true writings · **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 (Mr., you), 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:pg66516:23:76
# text = She answered, ‘If I am destroyed, then you may all believe in Pele, but if I am not, you must all turn to the true writings.’”
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	all	all	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	writings	writing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **destroy** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **believe** | may | you |  |  | Pele | then | all *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **turn** | must | you |  |  | the true writings |  | all *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to writing=Trajectory |

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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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