--- title: Ka-au-ea (The fiery current) and Uwe-kahuna (priest weeping) and Hal… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics description: Ka-au-ea (The fiery current) and Uwe-kahuna (priest weeping) and Hale-mau-mau (House of ferns) were kahunas, or priests of wonderful power. Who acts: Ka. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/10/92/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mytholo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/) / [Pele and Kaha-wali](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/10/) / 92 # Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 92 Ka-au-ea (The fiery current) and Uwe-kahuna (priest weeping) and Hale-mau-mau (House of ferns) were kahunas, or priests of wonderful power. **Who acts:** Ka · **What happens:** ea, be · **To what, where:** ea kahunas 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 (Ka), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66516:10:92 # text = Ka-au-ea (The fiery current) and Uwe-kahuna (priest weeping) and Hale-mau-mau (House of ferns) were kahunas, or priests of wonderful power. 1 Ka Ka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 au au NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ea ea NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 fiery fiery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 current current NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 Uwe Uwe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 kahuna kahuna NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 weeping weeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 Hale hale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 mau mau NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 mau mau NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 House house NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 ferns fern NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 30 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 kahunas kahuna NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 priests priest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 appos _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ea** | | Ka | | | | | the fiery current *appos*; Uwe kahuna and Hale mau mau *conj* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | past | | ea kahunas | | | | priests of wonderful power *appos* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/10/91/) - next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/10/93/) - ↑ back to [Pele and Kaha-wali](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/10/)