--- title: Na-maka-o-ka-hai, a sea-goddess, as a result of family trouble, beca… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics description: Na-maka-o-ka-hai, a sea-goddess, as a result of family trouble, became Pele’s most bitter enemy, fighting her with floods of water, according to the legends. Who acts: Na, water. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. 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D. Westervelt, Genealogy of the Pele Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Na, water), 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:pg66516:13:12 # text = Na-maka-o-ka-hai, a sea-goddess, as a result of family trouble, became Pele’s most bitter enemy, fighting her with floods of water, according to the legends. 1 Na Na PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 maka maka X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 o of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 7 case _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ka ka NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 hai Hai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 goddess goddess NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 result result NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 23 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 24 Pele Pele PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ’s 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 amod _ _ 27 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 fighting fight VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 31 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 floods flood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 case _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 37 fixed _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 legends legend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | Na | Pele's most bitter enemy | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **fight** | gerund | Na *not said here* | Na | | | | with floods of water; accord the legends | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | | 3 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **result** | | | family trouble | | | | | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **flood** | | water | | | | | | nom flood «phenomenon 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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/13/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/13/13/) - ↑ back to [Genealogy of the Pele Family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/13/)