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title: This meant that they came to the place now known as Hilo Bay. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: This meant that they came to the place now known as Hilo Bay. Who acts: This, 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 18

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This meant that they came to the place now known as Hilo Bay.

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**Who acts:** This, Hawaiians · **What happens:** mean, come, know · **To what, where:** place · **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 (This, 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:pg66516:8:18
# text = This meant that they came to the place now known as Hilo Bay.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Hilo	Hilo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | past | This |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | past | Hawaiians *= hawaiian* |  |  | the place |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  | the place *not said here* |  |  | now | as Hilo Bay | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as bay=Attribute |

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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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