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title: When Lohiau saw the tears pouring down the face of his wife he asked… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: When Lohiau saw the tears pouring down the face of his wife he asked why in this time of gladness she wept. Who acts: Lohiau, tears, water. 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 181

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When Lohiau saw the tears pouring down the face of his wife he asked why in this time of gladness she wept.

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**Who acts:** Lohiau, tears, water · **What happens:** see, pour down, ask, weep · **To what, where:** tears, face

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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 (Lohiau, tears, water), 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:pg66516:14:181
# text = When Lohiau saw the tears pouring down the face of his wife he asked why in this time of gladness she wept.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Lohiau	Lohiau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	gladness	gladness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Lohiau | the tears |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tear=Stimulus |
| 2 | **pour down** | gerund | the tears *not said here* | the face of water's wife |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | water |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **weep** | past | Lohiau |  |  |  | time |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: 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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