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title: Let them point to the eye of the sun. There is the wind of Kane at s… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Let them point to the eye of the sun. There is the wind of Kane at sunset— The hard night-wind for Kauai.” Who acts: you, branches, wind. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 129

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Let them point to the eye of the sun. There is the wind of Kane at sunset— The hard night-wind for Kauai.”

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**Who acts:** you, branches, wind · **What happens:** let, point, be, wind · **To what, where:** branches, eye, sun., Kane

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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 (you, branches, wind), 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:pg66516:14:129
# text = Let them point to the eye of the sun. There is the wind of Kane at sunset— The hard night-wind for Kauai.”
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	point	point	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Kane	Kane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | branches *= branch* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **point** | infinitive | branches *= branch* *not said here* |  | the eye of the sun. |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to eye=Recipient |
| 3 | **does** | present | the wind of Kane at sunset and the hard night wind for Kauai | the sun. *not said here* |  | there |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sun.=Theme |
| 4 | **wind** |  |  | Kane |  |  |  | at sunset | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient at=obl |

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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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