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title: He had heard of a beautiful young chiefess on the distant island Haw… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: He had heard of a beautiful young chiefess on the distant island Hawaii who was a wonderful holua rider. Who acts: wali, distant island. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 22

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He had heard of a beautiful young chiefess on the distant island Hawaii who was a wonderful holua rider.

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**Who acts:** wali, distant island · **What happens:** hear, be · **To what, where:** wonderful holua rider

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wali, distant island), 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:pg66516:10:22
# text = He had heard of a beautiful young chiefess on the distant island Hawaii who was a wonderful holua rider.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	chiefess	chiefess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	holua	holua	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · perfect | wali |  |  |  |  | of a beautiful young chiefess on the distant island | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of chiefess=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the distant island | a wonderful holua rider |  |  |  |  | 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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