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title: The spirit of Pele heard the wind, Naue, passing down to the sea and… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The spirit of Pele heard the wind, Naue, passing down to the sea and soon came the call of Hiiaka over the waters. Who acts: spirit. 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 179

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The spirit of Pele heard the wind, Naue, passing down to the sea and soon came the call of Hiiaka over the waters.

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**Who acts:** spirit · **What happens:** hear, pass down, come, call · **To what, where:** wind, sea, call, waters, Hiiaka · **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 (spirit), 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:pg66516:14:179
# text = The spirit of Pele heard the wind, Naue, passing down to the sea and soon came the call of Hiiaka over the waters.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Naue	Naue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the spirit of Pele | the wind |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wind=Stimulus |
| 2 | **pass down** | gerund | the spirit of Pele *not said here* |  |  | the sea |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **come** | past | the spirit of Pele *not said here* | the call of Hiiaka |  | the waters |  | soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location call=Theme |
| 4 | **call** |  |  | Hiiaka |  |  |  |  | nom call «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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