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title: Kaha-wali thought this was a common native and roughly refused her r… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Kaha-wali thought this was a common native and roughly refused her request, saying: “Are you my wife [i.e., my equal in rank], that you should have my holua?” Who acts: Kaha wali, this, you, woman. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali, wit
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 56

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Kaha-wali thought this was a common native and roughly refused her request, saying: “Are you my wife \[i.e., my equal in rank\], that you should have my holua?”

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**Who acts:** Kaha wali, this, you, woman · **What happens:** think, be, refuse, say, have, request · **To what, where:** request, wife, rank, holua · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Kaha wali, this, you, woman), 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:pg66516:10:56
# text = Kaha-wali thought this was a common native and roughly refused her request, saying: “Are you my wife [i.e., my equal in rank], that you should have my holua?”
1	Kaha	Kaha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	wali	wali	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	_
23	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
36	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	holua	holua	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Kaha wali |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | this |  |  |  |  | native *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **refuse** | past | this *not said here* | woman's request |  |  |  | roughly *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: ask* | gerund | Kaha wali *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | my wife |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** *in a quote* |  | you *not said here* |  |  | rank |  | my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** *in a quote* | should | you | my holua |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holua=Patient |
| 8 | **request** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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