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title: As soon as she could she said to Hiiaka: “Go far away; go to Kauai;… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as she could she said to Hiiaka: “Go far away; go to Kauai; get a husband for us, and bring him to Hawaii. Who acts: Pele. 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 31

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As soon as she could she said to Hiiaka: “Go far away; go to Kauai; get a husband for us, and bring him to Hawaii.

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**Who acts:** Pele · **What happens:** say, go, get, bring · **To what, where:** Hiiaka, Kauai, husband, Hawaii · **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 (Pele), 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:pg66516:15:31
# text = As soon as she could she said to Hiiaka: “Go far away; go to Kauai; get a husband for us, and bring him to Hawaii.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
13	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Pele |  | Hiiaka |  |  | soon *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to hiiaka=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | Kauai |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to kauai=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a husband |  |  |  | for us | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent husband=Theme for we=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | husband | Hawaii |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to hawaii=Destination |

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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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