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title: These usually are ascribed to the fire-goddess Pele, who came to the… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: These usually are ascribed to the fire-goddess Pele, who came to the Hawaiian group ages after the islands were built, and who only succeeded in starting eruptions of no great importance until she found her present home in the volcano Kilauea. Who acts: fire goddess, Pele, great importance. A senten
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 7

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These usually are ascribed to the fire-goddess Pele, who came to the Hawaiian group ages after the islands were built, and who only succeeded in starting eruptions of no great importance until she found her present home in the volcano Kilauea.

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**Who acts:** fire goddess, Pele, great importance · **What happens:** ascribe, come, build, succeed, start, find · **To what, where:** These, group ages, islands, starting eruptions, present home, volcano

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hawaiian Volcanoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire goddess, Pele, great importance), 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:pg66516:26:7
# text = These usually are ascribed to the fire-goddess Pele, who came to the Hawaiian group ages after the islands were built, and who only succeeded in starting eruptions of no great importance until she found her present home in the volcano Kilauea.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	ascribed	ascribe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	starting	start	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	amod	_	_
31	eruptions	eruption	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	35	det	_	_
34	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
36	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	volcano	volcano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
45	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascribe** | present · passive |  | These |  |  |  | to the fire goddess; usually *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | the fire goddess |  |  |  | to the group ages |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to age=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **build** | past · passive |  | the islands |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **succeed** | past |  |  |  | starting eruptions of no great importance |  | who *nsubj* | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in eruption=Eventuality |
| 5 | **start** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **find** | past | Pele | Pele's present home |  | the volcano |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Topic |
| 7 | **erupt** |  | no great importance |  |  |  |  |  | nom eruption «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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