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title: The natives call these “funeral mounds” and name them after the buil… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The natives call these “funeral mounds” and name them after the builders, although the persons themselves were seldom placed underneath in burial. Who acts: natives, these. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, with its dependency
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 16

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The natives call these “funeral mounds” and name them after the builders, although the persons themselves were seldom placed underneath in burial.

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**Who acts:** natives, these · **What happens:** call, mound, name, place · **To what, where:** natives, persons, burial · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (natives, these), 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:pg66516:8:16
# text = The natives call these “funeral mounds” and name them after the builders, although the persons themselves were seldom placed underneath in burial.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	natives	native	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	mounds	mound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	name	name	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	builders	builder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	nmod	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	seldom	seldom	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
23	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	burial	burial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | the natives |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mound** *in a quote* |  | these |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** | infinitive | the natives *not said here* | natives *= native* |  |  | after the builders |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **place** | past · passive |  | the persons  persons |  | burial |  | seldom, underneath *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in burial=Destination |

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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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