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description: The young chiefs talked together concerning their experiences and then began to draw away from their dangerous visitor. Who acts: young chiefs, 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 c
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 46

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The young chiefs talked together concerning their experiences and then began to draw away from their dangerous visitor.

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**Who acts:** young chiefs, chiefs · **What happens:** talk, concern, begin, draw away, experience · **To what, where:** experiences

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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, 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:pg66516:7:46
# text = The young chiefs talked together concerning their experiences and then began to draw away from their dangerous visitor.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	experiences	experience	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	visitor	visitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | past | the young chiefs |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **concern** | gerund | the young chiefs *not said here* | chiefs's experiences |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus experience=Experiencer |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the young chiefs *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **draw away** | to-infinitive | the young chiefs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from chiefs's dangerous visitor; away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from visitor=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **experience** |  | chiefs *= chief* |  |  |  |  |  | nom experience «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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