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title: Together they were making life happy when Pele called for Hiiaka. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Together they were making life happy when Pele called for Hiiaka. Who acts: Hawaiians. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 20

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Together they were making life happy when Pele called for Hiiaka.

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**Who acts:** Hawaiians · **What happens:** make, call · **To what, where:** life, Pele · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Hawaiians), 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:pg66516:15:20
# text = Together they were making life happy when Pele called for Hiiaka.
1	Together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · progressive | Hawaiians *= hawaiian* | life |  |  |  | happy, together *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset life=Product |
| 2 | **call** | participle · passive |  | Pele |  |  |  | for Hiiaka | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for hiiaka=Beneficiary |

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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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