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title: Thus she passed along the coast of each island, the family watching… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus she passed along the coast of each island, the family watching and aiding until they came to the great volcano Haleakala. Who acts: place, family, fires. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 87

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Thus she passed along the coast of each island, the family watching and aiding until they came to the great volcano Haleakala.

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**Who acts:** place, family, fires · **What happens:** pass, watch, aid, come · **To what, where:** coast, great volcano

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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 (place, family, fires), 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:pg66516:5:87
# text = Thus she passed along the coast of each island, the family watching and aiding until they came to the great volcano Haleakala.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	along	along	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	aiding	aid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
16	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	volcano	volcano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	Haleakala	Haleakala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | place |  |  | the coast of each island |  | thus *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme along coast=Location |
| 2 | **watch** | gerund | the family |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **aid** | gerund | the family *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | fires *= fire* |  |  | the great volcano |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to volcano=Initial\_Location |

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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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