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title: There were ohias [14] (apples) and the brilliant red, feathery bloss… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: There were ohias [14] (apples) and the brilliant red, feathery blossoms of the lehua trees, and there grew the hala, from which sweet-scented skirts and mats were woven. Who acts: ohias. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, with its
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 13

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There were ohias \[14\] (apples) and the brilliant red, feathery blossoms of the lehua trees, and there grew the hala, from which sweet-scented skirts and mats were woven.

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**Who acts:** ohias · **What happens:** be, grow, scent, weave · **To what, where:** hala, scented skirts

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ohias), 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:pg66516:15:13
# text = There were ohias [14] (apples) and the brilliant red, feathery blossoms of the lehua trees, and there grew the hala, from which sweet-scented skirts and mats were woven.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ohias	ohia	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
4	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
12	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	feathery	feathery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	lehua	lehua	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hala	hala	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obl	_	_
30	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	scented	scent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
33	skirts	skirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	mats	mat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | ohias and the brilliant red feathery blossoms of the lehua trees |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | past |  | the hala |  | there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hala=Theme |
| 3 | **scent** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **weave** | past · passive |  | scented skirts and mats |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: subject=Product from which=Material |

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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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