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title: Hiiaka slowly went forth catching only a magic pa-u, or skirt, which… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Hiiaka slowly went forth catching only a magic pa-u, or skirt, which had the death-dealing power of flashing lightning. Who acts: Hiiaka, skirt, dealing power. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 51

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Hiiaka slowly went forth catching only a magic pa-u, or skirt, which had the death-dealing power of flashing lightning.

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**Who acts:** Hiiaka, skirt, dealing power · **What happens:** go, catch, have, deal, flash · **To what, where:** magic pa u, dealing power, lightning

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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, skirt, dealing power), 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:pg66516:15:51
# text = Hiiaka slowly went forth catching only a magic pa-u, or skirt, which had the death-dealing power of flashing lightning.
1	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	catching	catch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	pa	pa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	u	u	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	skirt	skirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	dealing	deal	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
23	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	flashing	flash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
25	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Hiiaka |  |  |  |  | forth, slowly *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **catch** | gerund | Hiiaka *not said here* | a magic pa u |  |  |  | skirt *obl* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | skirt | the dealing power |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 4 | **deal** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | death *compound* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **flash** | gerund | the dealing power *not said here* | lightning |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lightning=Theme |

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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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