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title: Maidens and young men vied with each other in mad rushes over the ho… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Maidens and young men vied with each other in mad rushes over the holua courses. Who acts: Maidens. 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 35

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Maidens and young men vied with each other in mad rushes over the holua courses.

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**Who acts:** Maidens · **What happens:** vie · **To what, where:** mad rushes

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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 (Maidens), 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:pg66516:7:35
# text = Maidens and young men vied with each other in mad rushes over the holua courses.
1	Maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	vied	vie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	5	obl	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	fixed	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	holua	holua	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	courses	course	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vie** | past | Maidens and young men |  |  | mad rushes |  | with each; over the holua courses | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with each=Co-Agent over course=Theme |

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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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