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title: Pueo hovered over the head of Pii facing Pele. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Pueo hovered over the head of Pii facing Pele. Who acts: Pueo. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 39

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Pueo hovered over the head of Pii facing Pele.

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**Who acts:** Pueo · **What happens:** hover, face · **To what, where:** head, Pele

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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 (Pueo), 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:pg66516:6:39
# text = Pueo hovered over the head of Pii facing Pele.
1	Pueo	Pueo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hovered	hover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Pii	Pii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	facing	face	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hover** | past | Pueo |  |  | the head of Pii |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Location |
| 2 | **face** | gerund | Pueo *not said here* |  | Pele |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pele=Destination |

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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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