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title: According to the “Tales of a Venerable Savage” the chief said: “I am… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: According to the “Tales of a Venerable Savage” the chief said: “I am Ke-lii-kuku of Puna. Who acts: chief. 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 61

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According to the “Tales of a Venerable Savage” the chief said: “I am Ke-lii-kuku of Puna.

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**Who acts:** chief · **What happens:** accord, say, be · **To what, where:** Ke lii kuku · **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 (chief), 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:pg66516:8:61
# text = According to the “Tales of a Venerable Savage” the chief said: “I am Ke-lii-kuku of Puna.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Venerable	venerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Savage	savage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
17	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
18	Ke	Ke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	lii	lii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	kuku	kuku	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Puna	Puna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the chief |  |  |  |  | accord the Tales; of a Venerable Savage | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the chief *= chief* | Ke lii kuku |  |  |  | of Puna | tree rules |

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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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