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title: The Pele family crossed the channel between the islands and went to… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The Pele family crossed the channel between the islands and went to the mountain side, for they also had seen the spirit form of Pele. Who acts: Pele family, fires. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii, with its dependency tree and th
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 101

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The Pele family crossed the channel between the islands and went to the mountain side, for they also had seen the spirit form of Pele.

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**Who acts:** Pele family, fires · **What happens:** cross, go, see, form · **To what, where:** channel, mountain side, spirit form, Pele

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pele family, fires), 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:pg66516:5:101
# text = The Pele family crossed the channel between the islands and went to the mountain side, for they also had seen the spirit form of Pele.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	channel	channel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | past | the Pele family | the channel |  |  |  | between the islands | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent channel=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | past | the Pele family *not said here* |  |  | the mountain side |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to side=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect | fires *= fire* | the spirit form of Pele |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer form=Stimulus |
| 4 | **form** |  |  | Pele |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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