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title: Hii conveys the idea of lifting on the hip and arm so as to make car… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Hii conveys the idea of lifting on the hip and arm so as to make carrying easy. Who acts: Hii, idea. 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 91

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Hii conveys the idea of lifting on the hip and arm so as to make carrying easy.

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**Who acts:** Hii, idea · **What happens:** convey, lift, make, carry · **To what, where:** idea, hip

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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 (Hii, idea), 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:pg66516:13:91
# text = Hii conveys the idea of lifting on the hip and arm so as to make carrying easy.
1	Hii	Hii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	conveys	convey	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	lifting	lift	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hip	hip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
16	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
17	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **convey** | present | Hii | the idea |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent idea=Topic |
| 2 | **lift** | gerund | the idea *not said here* |  |  | the hip and arm |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on hip=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | the idea *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **carry** | gerund | the idea *not said here* |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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