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title: When Hawaiians, who had been ill, recovered, they frequently vowed t… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: When Hawaiians, who had been ill, recovered, they frequently vowed to make a “journey of health.” Who acts: Hawaiians. 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 17

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When Hawaiians, who had been ill, recovered, they frequently vowed to make a “journey of health.”

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**Who acts:** Hawaiians · **What happens:** be, recover, vow, make, journey · **To what, where:** journey, health

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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 (Hawaiians), 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:pg66516:8:17
# text = When Hawaiians, who had been ill, recovered, they frequently vowed to make a “journey of health.”
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
2	Hawaiians	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
7	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	recovered	recover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	vowed	vow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | Hawaiians |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; ill *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **recover** | participle | Hawaiians *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **vow** | past | Hawaiians *= hawaiian* |  |  |  |  | frequently *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Hawaiians *= hawaiian* *not said here* | a journey of health |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset journey=Product |
| 5 | **journey** *in a quote* |  |  | health |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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