--- title: There is a legend of Kauai woven into the fairy-tale of the maiden o… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics description: There is a legend of Kauai woven into the fairy-tale of the maiden of the mist—Laieikawai—and in this story Poliahu for a short time visits Kauai as the bride of one of the high chiefs who bore the name Aiwohikupua. Who acts: legend, high chiefs, maiden. 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D. Westervelt, Pele and the Snow-goddess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legend, high chiefs, maiden), 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:pg66516:12:27 # text = There is a legend of Kauai woven into the fairy-tale of the maiden of the mist—Laieikawai—and in this story Poliahu for a short time visits Kauai as the bride of one of the high chiefs who bore the name Aiwohikupua. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Kauai Kauai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 woven weave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 mist mist NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 — - PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Laieikawai Laieikawai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 — - PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 det _ _ 25 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 26 Poliahu Poliahu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 31 visits visit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 32 Kauai Kauai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 as as ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nmod _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 chiefs chief NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ _ 42 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 43 bore bear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 Aiwohikupua Aiwohikupua PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | a legend of Kauai | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **weave** | participle | | a legend of Kauai *not said here* | | the fairy tale of the maiden of the mist Laieikawai | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tale=Destination | | 3 | **visit** | present | a legend of Kauai *not said here* | Kauai | | this story for a short time | | as the bride of one of the high chiefs | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kauai=Co-Agent | | 4 | **bear** | past | the high chiefs | the name | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | | 5 | **tell** | | the maiden of the mist Laieikawai | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/12/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/12/28/) - ↑ back to [Pele and the Snow-goddess](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/12/)