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title: Here kings, chiefs, and priests have come for ages to build great pi… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Here kings, chiefs, and priests have come for ages to build great piles of lava rock with many ceremonies. Who acts: priests. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 15

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Here kings, chiefs, and priests have come for ages to build great piles of lava rock with many ceremonies.

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**Who acts:** priests · **What happens:** come, build · **To what, where:** kings, great piles

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Chiefs of Puna. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (priests), 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:pg66516:8:15
# text = Here kings, chiefs, and priests have come for ages to build great piles of lava rock with many ceremonies.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	piles	pile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present · perfect | priests | kings and chiefs *not said here* |  |  | for ages |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location king=Theme |
| 2 | **build** | to-infinitive | priests *not said here* | great piles of lava rock |  |  |  | with many ceremonies | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pile=Theme with ceremony=Source |

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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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