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title: Surely one cannot expect it to add any story to Hawaiian mythology.” — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Surely one cannot expect it to add any story to Hawaiian mythology.” Who acts: one, place. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 25

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Surely one cannot expect it to add any story to Hawaiian mythology.”

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**Who acts:** one, place · **What happens:** not expect, add · **To what, where:** place, story

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, place), 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:pg66516:7:25
# text = Surely one cannot expect it to add any story to Hawaiian mythology.”
1	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	expect	expect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	mythology	mythology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **expect** | can | one | place |  |  |  | surely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | place *not said here* | any story |  |  |  | to Hawaiian mythology | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent story=Patient to mythology=Co-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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