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title: For whatever belonged to their religions, their handicrafts or their… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: For whatever belonged to their religions, their handicrafts or their amusements, their vocabulary was most copious and minute. Who acts: whatever, vocabulary, terms. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Polynesian Language, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 14

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For whatever belonged to their religions, their handicrafts or their amusements, their vocabulary was most copious and minute.

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**Who acts:** whatever, vocabulary, terms · **What happens:** belong, be, amuse

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Polynesian Language. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whatever, vocabulary, terms), 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:pg66516:31:14
# text = For whatever belonged to their religions, their handicrafts or their amusements, their vocabulary was most copious and minute.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	religions	religion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	handicrafts	handicraft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	amusements	amusement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	vocabulary	vocabulary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	18	advmod	_	_
18	copious	copious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | past | whatever |  |  |  |  | to terms's religions and terms's handicrafts or terms's amusements | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | terms's vocabulary |  |  |  |  | copious *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **amuse** |  | terms *= term* |  |  |  |  |  | nom amusement «feeling transitive»: poss=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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