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title: Pele caught the egg, wrapped it in her skirt to keep it warm near he… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Pele caught the egg, wrapped it in her skirt to keep it warm near her body, and said that it should always be with her. Who acts: Pele, egg. 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 cl
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 11

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Pele caught the egg, wrapped it in her skirt to keep it warm near her body, and said that it should always be with her.

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**Who acts:** Pele, egg · **What happens:** catch, wrap, keep, say, be · **To what, where:** egg, skirt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, egg), 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:pg66516:5:11
# text = Pele caught the egg, wrapped it in her skirt to keep it warm near her body, and said that it should always be with her.
1	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	skirt	skirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	near	near	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
24	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	27	advmod	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | Pele | the egg |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme |
| 2 | **wrap** | past | Pele *not said here* | egg |  | Pele's skirt |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in skirt=Destination |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Pele *not said here* | egg |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Pele *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | should | egg |  |  |  |  | with Pele; always *property* | 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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