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title: The legends say that “this giant was twelve feet high, he had eyes a… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The legends say that “this giant was twelve feet high, he had eyes as large as a man’s fist, and an immense mouth full of tusks like those of a wild hog. Who acts: legends, giant, Pii. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, with its
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 21

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The legends say that “this giant was twelve feet high, he had eyes as large as a man’s fist, and an immense mouth full of tusks like those of a wild hog.

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**Who acts:** legends, giant, Pii · **What happens:** say, be, have · **To what, where:** eyes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (legends, giant, 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:pg66516:6:21
# text = The legends say that “this giant was twelve feet high, he had eyes as large as a man’s fist, and an immense mouth full of tusks like those of a wild hog.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	fist	fist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
28	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	tusks	tusk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
31	like	like	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	30	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	hog	hog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the legends |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | this giant |  |  |  |  | twelve feet *obl:unmarked*; high *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Pii | eyes |  |  |  | a immense mouth *obl*; large *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |

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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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