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title: Kama-puaa raised his voice in the great ancient chant: — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Kama-puaa raised his voice in the great ancient chant: Who acts: Kama puaa. 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 81

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Kama-puaa raised his voice in the great ancient chant:

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**Who acts:** Kama puaa · **What happens:** raise · **To what, where:** voice, great ancient chant

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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 (Kama puaa), 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:pg66516:11:81
# text = Kama-puaa raised his voice in the great ancient chant:
1	Kama	Kama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	puaa	puaa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	chant	chant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **raise** | past | Kama puaa | puaa's voice |  | the great ancient chant |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent voice=Theme in chant=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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