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title: This meant a ghost-god, powerful enough to aid the worshipper to pra… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: This meant a ghost-god, powerful enough to aid the worshipper to pray other people to death. Who acts: This. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 106

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This meant a ghost-god, powerful enough to aid the worshipper to pray other people to death.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** mean, aid, pray · **To what, where:** ghost god, worshipper, other people

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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 (This), 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:pg66516:5:106
# text = This meant a ghost-god, powerful enough to aid the worshipper to pray other people to death.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
9	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	aid	aid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	worshipper	worshipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | past | This | a ghost god |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Topic |
| 2 | **aid** | to-infinitive | This *not said here* | the worshipper |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worshipper=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **pray** | to-infinitive | This *not said here* | other people |  |  |  | to death | 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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