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title: Au might mean “to swim,” and kele “to glide,” or “slip smoothly alon… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Au might mean “to swim,” and kele “to glide,” or “slip smoothly along.” Who acts: Au. 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 55

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Au might mean “to swim,” and kele “to glide,” or “slip smoothly along.”

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**Who acts:** Au · **What happens:** mean, swim, glide · **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 (Au), 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:pg66516:5:55
# text = Au might mean “to swim,” and kele “to glide,” or “slip smoothly along.”
1	Au	au	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	kele	kele	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	glide	glide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	slip	slip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
19	smoothly	smoothly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	along	along	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | might | Au |  |  |  |  | kele or slip *conj*; along *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **swim** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **glide** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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