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title: She was not a queen, nor was she even a princess, although by blood… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: She was not a queen, nor was she even a princess, although by blood relationship she belonged to the royal family. Who acts: Kapiolani. 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 8

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She was not a queen, nor was she even a princess, although by blood relationship she belonged to the royal family.

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**Who acts:** Kapiolani · **What happens:** not be, be, belong · **To what, where:** queen, princess, blood relationship

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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:pg66516:23:8
# text = She was not a queen, nor was she even a princess, although by blood relationship she belonged to the royal family.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	12	cc	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	relationship	relationship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | past | Kapiolani | a queen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Kapiolani | a princess and blood relationship |  |  |  | blood relationship *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **belong** | past | Kapiolani | blood relationship *not said here* |  |  |  | to the royal family | tree rules |

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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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