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title: This incantation was known as “Hulihia ke au” (“The current is turni… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: This incantation was known as “Hulihia ke au” (“The current is turning”). Who acts: current. 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 160

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This incantation was known as “Hulihia ke au” (“The current is turning”).

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**Who acts:** current · **What happens:** know, turn · **To what, where:** incantation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (current), 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:pg66516:14:160
# text = This incantation was known as “Hulihia ke au” (“The current is turning”).
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	incantation	incantation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Hulihia	Hulihia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	ke	ke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	au	au	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past · passive |  | this incantation |  |  |  | as Hulihia ke au | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the current |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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