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title: It was so old that it had become legendary and was known as “Ka laau… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: It was so old that it had become legendary and was known as “Ka laau o Pele” (The tree of Pele). Who acts: way. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Tree, sentence 9

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It was so old that it had become legendary and was known as “Ka laau o Pele” (The tree of Pele).

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**Who acts:** way · **What happens:** be, become, know

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way), 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:pg66516:9:9
# text = It was so old that it had become legendary and was known as “Ka laau o Pele” (The tree of Pele).
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	legendary	legendary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	laau	laau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	18	case	_	_
18	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | way |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | past · perfect | way |  |  |  |  | legendary *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **know** | past · passive | way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as Ka laau of Pele | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as laau=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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