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title: Kaha-wali and Ahua leaped into the boat and pushed out into the ocean. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Kaha-wali and Ahua leaped into the boat and pushed out into the ocean. Who acts: Kaha. 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 84

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Kaha-wali and Ahua leaped into the boat and pushed out into the ocean.

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**Who acts:** Kaha · **What happens:** leap, push out · **To what, where:** boat, ocean

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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), 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:pg66516:10:84
# text = Kaha-wali and Ahua leaped into the boat and pushed out into the ocean.
1	Kaha	Kaha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	wali	wali	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Ahua	Ahua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	leaped	leap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | past | Kaha and Ahua |  |  | the boat |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into boat=Destination |
| 2 | **push out** | participle | Kaha and Ahua *not said here* |  |  | the ocean |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into ocean=Destination |

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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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