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title: After a time, Ai-laau left these pit craters and went into the great… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: After a time, Ai-laau left these pit craters and went into the great crater and was said to be living there when Pele came to the seashore far below. Who acts: Ai laau, Pele. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Ai-laau, the Forest Eater, with its dependency
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Ai-laau, the Forest Eater, sentence 21

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After a time, Ai-laau left these pit craters and went into the great crater and was said to be living there when Pele came to the seashore far below.

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**Who acts:** Ai laau, Pele · **What happens:** leave, go, say, live, come · **To what, where:** pit craters, great crater, seashore, Ai laau · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Ai-laau, the Forest Eater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ai laau, Pele), 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:pg66516:4:21
# text = After a time, Ai-laau left these pit craters and went into the great crater and was said to be living there when Pele came to the seashore far below.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	laau	laau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	craters	crater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	crater	crater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
23	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	ccomp	_	_
24	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	seashore	seashore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
32	below	below	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle | Ai laau after a time *not said here* | this pit craters |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crater=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | Ai laau after a time *not said here* |  |  | the great crater |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into crater=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive | Ai laau after a time *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: clause=Topic |
| 4 | **live** | to-infinitive · progressive |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | Pele |  |  | the seashore |  | below *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to seashore=Initial\_Location |

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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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