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title: Villages here and there marked the population which supported the ch… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Villages here and there marked the population which supported the chiefs of Kahuku. Who acts: Villages, population. 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 30

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Villages here and there marked the population which supported the chiefs of Kahuku.

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**Who acts:** Villages, population · **What happens:** mark, support · **To what, where:** population, chiefs

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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 (Villages, population), 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:pg66516:7:30
# text = Villages here and there marked the population which supported the chiefs of Kahuku.
1	Villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	conj	_	_
5	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	supported	support	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Kahuku	Kahuku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | past | Villages | the population |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent population=Destination |
| 2 | **support** | past | the population | the chiefs of Kahuku |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chief=Stimulus |

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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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