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title: The acceptable offerings to Pele were fruits, flowers, garlands (or… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The acceptable offerings to Pele were fruits, flowers, garlands (or leis), pigs (especially the small black pig of tender flesh and delicate flavor), chickens, fish, and men. Who acts: acceptable offerings. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 104

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The acceptable offerings to Pele were fruits, flowers, garlands (or leis), pigs (especially the small black pig of tender flesh and delicate flavor), chickens, fish, and men.

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**Who acts:** acceptable offerings · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** fruits

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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 (acceptable offerings), 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:pg66516:5:104
# text = The acceptable offerings to Pele were fruits, flowers, garlands (or leis), pigs (especially the small black pig of tender flesh and delicate flavor), chickens, fish, and men.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	acceptable	acceptable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	offerings	offering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	garlands	garland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	leis	leis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	flavor	flavor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the acceptable offerings to Pele | fruits and flowers and garlands or leis and pigs and chickens and fish and men |  |  |  | flowers *conj*; garlands or leis and pigs and chickens and fish *conj*; men *conj* | tree rules |

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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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