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title: In one of the Pele stories is the following literal translation of t… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: In one of the Pele stories is the following literal translation of the account of her taking Kilauea: Who acts: one, account. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Ai-laau, the Forest Eater, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Ai-laau, the Forest Eater, sentence 22

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In one of the Pele stories is the following literal translation of the account of her taking Kilauea:

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**Who acts:** one, account · **What happens:** follow, be, take · **To what, where:** Kilauea

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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 (one, account), 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:pg66516:4:22
# text = In one of the Pele stories is the following literal translation of the account of her taking Kilauea:
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	case	_	_
10	literal	literal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
18	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | one of the Pele stories |  |  |  |  | follow the literal translation; of the account | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | the account *not said here* |  | Kilauea |  |  | Pele *nmod:poss* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument kilauea=Destination |

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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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