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title: Apparently her journey would be first to Bola-bola in the Society Is… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Apparently her journey would be first to Bola-bola in the Society Islands, then among the mysterious ancestral islands, and then to the northwest until she found Niihau, the most northerly of the Hawaiian group. Who acts: journey, Pele. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 17

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Apparently her journey would be first to Bola-bola in the Society Islands, then among the mysterious ancestral islands, and then to the northwest until she found Niihau, the most northerly of the Hawaiian group.

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**Who acts:** journey, Pele · **What happens:** be, find, journey · **To what, where:** Niihau

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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 (journey, Pele), 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:pg66516:5:17
# text = Apparently her journey would be first to Bola-bola in the Society Islands, then among the mysterious ancestral islands, and then to the northwest until she found Niihau, the most northerly of the Hawaiian group.
1	Apparently	apparently	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Bola	Bola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	bola	bola	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
17	among	among	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	ancestral	ancestral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	northwest	northwest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
28	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
31	Niihau	Niihau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
34	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	35	advmod	_	_
35	northerly	northerly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Pele's journey |  |  |  |  | to Bola bola in the Society Islands; the mysterious ancestral islands *conj*; the northwest *conj*; apparently, first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | past | Pele | Niihau |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent niihau=Topic |
| 3 | **journey** |  | Pele |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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