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title: Two of the young chiefs were splendid specimens of savage manhood. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Two of the young chiefs were splendid specimens of savage manhood. Who acts: young chiefs. 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 31

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Two of the young chiefs were splendid specimens of savage manhood.

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**Who acts:** young chiefs · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Two

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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 (young chiefs), 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:pg66516:7:31
# text = Two of the young chiefs were splendid specimens of savage manhood.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	specimens	specimen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	manhood	manhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the young chiefs |  |  |  |  | of splendid specimens; of savage manhood | tree rules |

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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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