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title: The story of Pele’s search for a husband has been widely accepted by… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The story of Pele’s search for a husband has been widely accepted by foreigners but not by the early Hawaiian writers. Who acts: foreigners, Pele. 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 ev
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 41

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The story of Pele’s search for a husband has been widely accepted by foreigners but not by the early Hawaiian writers.

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**Who acts:** foreigners, Pele · **What happens:** accept, search · **To what, where:** story

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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 (foreigners, 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:pg66516:5:41
# text = The story of Pele’s search for a husband has been widely accepted by foreigners but not by the early Hawaiian writers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	accepted	accept	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	foreigners	foreigner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:agent	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	writers	writer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | present · perfect · passive | foreigners but the early Hawaiian writers | the story of Pele's search for a husband |  |  |  | widely *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **search** |  | Pele |  |  |  |  | for a husband | nom search «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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