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title: He changed his body into a kind of grass now known as Ku-kae-puaa, f… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: He changed his body into a kind of grass now known as Ku-kae-puaa, filling a large field with it. Who acts: stream. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 101

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He changed his body into a kind of grass now known as Ku-kae-puaa, filling a large field with it.

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**Who acts:** stream · **What happens:** change, know, fill · **To what, where:** body, kind, grass, large field

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stream), 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:pg66516:11:101
# text = He changed his body into a kind of grass now known as Ku-kae-puaa, filling a large field with it.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	Ku	Ku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	kae	kae	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	puaa	puaa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	filling	fill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past | stream | stream's body |  |  |  | into a kind of grass *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent body=Patient into kind=Result |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  | grass *not said here* |  |  | now | as Ku kae puaa | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as puaa=Attribute |
| 3 | **fill** | gerund | stream *not said here* | a large field |  |  |  | with field | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent field=Patient with it=Instrument |

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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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