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title: As Pele had charged Hiiaka so had Hiiaka laid her commandment on Pele. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: As Pele had charged Hiiaka so had Hiiaka laid her commandment on Pele. Who acts: Hiiaka, 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 46

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As Pele had charged Hiiaka so had Hiiaka laid her commandment on Pele.

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**Who acts:** Hiiaka, Pele · **What happens:** charge, have, lay, command · **To what, where:** Hiiaka, commandment, 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 (Hiiaka, 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:pg66516:15:46
# text = As Pele had charged Hiiaka so had Hiiaka laid her commandment on Pele.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	charged	charge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	commandment	commandment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charge** | past · perfect |  |  | Hiiaka |  |  | as Pele | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent hiiaka=Patient as pele=Attribute |
| 2 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lay** | past | Hiiaka | Pele's commandment |  | Pele |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent commandment=Theme on pele=Destination |
| 4 | **command** |  | Pele |  |  |  |  |  | nom commandment «communication transitive»: poss=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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