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title: Hiiaka, like the other sisters, knew how uncertain Pele was in all h… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Hiiaka, like the other sisters, knew how uncertain Pele was in all her moods and how suddenly and unexpectedly her wrath would bring destruction upon anything appearing to oppose her. Who acts: Hiiaka, Pele, uncertain moods. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westerve
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 47

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Hiiaka, like the other sisters, knew how uncertain Pele was in all her moods and how suddenly and unexpectedly her wrath would bring destruction upon anything appearing to oppose her.

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**Who acts:** Hiiaka, Pele, uncertain moods · **What happens:** know, be, bring, appear, oppose · **To what, where:** uncertain moods, destruction, Hiiaka · **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, uncertain moods), 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:pg66516:15:47
# text = Hiiaka, like the other sisters, knew how uncertain Pele was in all her moods and how suddenly and unexpectedly her wrath would bring destruction upon anything appearing to oppose her.
1	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	uncertain	uncertain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
11	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	moods	mood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	unexpectedly	unexpectedly	ADV	RB	_	19	conj	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
26	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	25	obl	_	_
29	appearing	appear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	oppose	oppose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Hiiaka and the other sisters |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | Pele |  |  | Hiiaka's uncertain moods |  | Hiiaka *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | would | Hiiaka's uncertain moods | destruction |  |  |  | upon anything; Hiiaka's wrath *nsubj*; suddenly *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent destruction=Theme |
| 4 | **appear** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **oppose** | to-infinitive |  | Hiiaka |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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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