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title: Assuming the appearance of a splendidly formed young man, Pii went d… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Assuming the appearance of a splendidly formed young man, Pii went down among the natives with Koa to watch for an opportunity to seize Kau. Who acts: Pii. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 12

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Assuming the appearance of a splendidly formed young man, Pii went down among the natives with Koa to watch for an opportunity to seize Kau.

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**Who acts:** Pii · **What happens:** assume, form, go down, watch, seize · **To what, where:** appearance, natives, Kau

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Owl Ghost-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pii), 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:pg66516:6:12
# text = Assuming the appearance of a splendidly formed young man, Pii went down among the natives with Koa to watch for an opportunity to seize Kau.
1	Assuming	assume	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	Pii	Pii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	natives	native	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Koa	Koa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	Kau	Kau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assume** | gerund | Pii *not said here* | the appearance of a formed young man |  |  |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Theme |
| 2 | **form** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | splendidly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go down** | past | Pii |  |  | the natives with Koa |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among native=Location |
| 4 | **watch** | to-infinitive | Pii *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a opportunity | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for opportunity=Theme |
| 5 | **seize** | to-infinitive | Pii *not said here* | Kau |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kau=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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