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title: “O Kauai, great island of the Lehua, Island moving in the ocean, Isl… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: “O Kauai, great island of the Lehua, Island moving in the ocean, Island moving from Tahiti, Let the winds rattle the branches to Hawaii. Who acts: great island, Kauai, you, winds. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep, with its dependency tr
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 128

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“O Kauai, great island of the Lehua, Island moving in the ocean, Island moving from Tahiti, Let the winds rattle the branches to Hawaii.

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**Who acts:** great island, Kauai, you, winds · **What happens:** move, let, rattle · **To what, where:** ocean, Tahiti, branches, Hawaii

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great island, Kauai, you, winds), 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:pg66516:14:128
# text = “O Kauai, great island of the Lehua, Island moving in the ocean, Island moving from Tahiti, Let the winds rattle the branches to Hawaii.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	3	case	_	_
3	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Lehua	Lehua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
18	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Tahiti	Tahiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
22	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	rattle	rattle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	xcomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** *in a quote* | gerund | great island of the Lehua *not said here* |  |  | the ocean |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in ocean=Trajectory |
| 2 | **move** *in a quote* | gerund | Kauai *not said here* |  |  | Tahiti |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from tahiti=Trajectory |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Kauai | tree rules |
| 4 | **rattle** *in a quote* | present | the winds | the branches | Hawaii |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent branch=Theme |

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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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