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title: There they bathed by the beautiful little Coconut Island, fished up… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: There they bathed by the beautiful little Coconut Island, fished up by the demi-god Maui. 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 19

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There they bathed by the beautiful little Coconut Island, fished up by the demi-god Maui.

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**Who acts:** Hawaiians · **What happens:** bath, fish up

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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:pg66516:8:19
# text = There they bathed by the beautiful little Coconut Island, fished up by the demi-god Maui.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bathed	bath	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Coconut	Coconut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	fished	fish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	demi	demi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bath** | past | Hawaiians *= hawaiian* |  |  | there |  | by the beautiful little Coconut Island | tree rules |
| 2 | **fish up** | participle | Hawaiians *= hawaiian* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the demi god | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by god=Location |

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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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