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title: Soon she arose and told Hiiaka to call the sisters from the sea and… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon she arose and told Hiiaka to call the sisters from the sea and they would go inland. Who acts: spirit, sisters. 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 191

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Soon she arose and told Hiiaka to call the sisters from the sea and they would go inland.

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**Who acts:** spirit, sisters · **What happens:** arise, tell, call, go · **To what, where:** Hiiaka, sisters, sea · **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, sisters), 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:pg66516:14:191
# text = Soon she arose and told Hiiaka to call the sisters from the sea and they would go inland.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	iobj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
18	inland	inland	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | spirit |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | spirit *not said here* |  | Hiiaka |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent hiiaka=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **call** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | spirit *not said here* | the sisters |  | the sea |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sister=Theme from sea=Source |
| 4 | **go** | would | sisters *= sister* |  |  |  |  | inland *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP 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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