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title: There is a story of her appearance as a dream maiden before the king… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: There is a story of her appearance as a dream maiden before the king of Kauai, whose name was Lohiau, whom she married, but with whom she could not stay until she had found a place where she could build a permanent home for herself and all who belonged to her. Who acts: story, name, Lohiau. A senten
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 24

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There is a story of her appearance as a dream maiden before the king of Kauai, whose name was Lohiau, whom she married, but with whom she could not stay until she had found a place where she could build a permanent home for herself and all who belonged to her.

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**Who acts:** story, name, Lohiau · **What happens:** be, marry, not stay, find, build, belong · **To what, where:** Lohiau, king, place, permanent home, Kauai

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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 (story, name, Lohiau), 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:pg66516:5:24
# text = There is a story of her appearance as a dream maiden before the king of Kauai, whose name was Lohiau, whom she married, but with whom she could not stay until she had found a place where she could build a permanent home for herself and all who belonged to her.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	Lohiau	Lohiau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	obl	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
34	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	43	advmod	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	acl:relcl	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
47	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	43	obl	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	obj	_	_
51	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	52	nsubj	_	_
52	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	acl:relcl	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a story of story's appearance as a dream maiden |  |  | there | before the king of Kauai |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before king=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Lohiau's name | Lohiau |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **marry** | past | story | the king of Kauai |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **stay** | could | story |  |  |  |  | whom *obl* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with whom=Location |
| 5 | **find** | past · perfect | story | a place |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent place=Theme all=Attribute |
| 6 | **build** | could | story | a permanent home |  |  |  | for Kauai | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent home=Product for herself=Asset |
| 7 | **belong** | past |  |  | Kauai |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **name** |  | Lohiau |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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