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title: The conflict lasted for a long time along the western slope of the m… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The conflict lasted for a long time along the western slope of the mountain Hale-a-ka-la. Who acts: conflict. 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 92

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The conflict lasted for a long time along the western slope of the mountain Hale-a-ka-la.

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**Who acts:** conflict · **What happens:** last

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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 (conflict), 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:pg66516:5:92
# text = The conflict lasted for a long time along the western slope of the mountain Hale-a-ka-la.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	along	along	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	slope	slope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	Hale	hale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	ka	ka	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	la	la	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	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 | **last** | past | the conflict |  |  |  | time | along the western slope of the mountain | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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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