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title: One set of legends says that Kane-hoa-lani was the father and Hina-a… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: One set of legends says that Kane-hoa-lani was the father and Hina-alii was the mother. Who acts: One set, Kane hoa lani, Hina. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Genealogy of the Pele Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 14

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One set of legends says that Kane-hoa-lani was the father and Hina-alii was the mother.

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**Who acts:** One set, Kane hoa lani, Hina · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** father, mother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. 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 (One set, Kane hoa lani, Hina), 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:pg66516:13:14
# text = One set of legends says that Kane-hoa-lani was the father and Hina-alii was the mother.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
7	Kane	Kane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	hoa	hoa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	lani	lani	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Hina	Hina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	alii	alii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | One set of legends |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Kane hoa lani | the father |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Hina and alii | the mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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