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title: What the Hawaiians call mana, or supernatural power able to manifest… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: What the Hawaiians call mana, or supernatural power able to manifest itself in many ways, had come upon 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 60

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What the Hawaiians call mana, or supernatural power able to manifest itself in many ways, had come upon Hiiaka.

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**Who acts:** Hawaiians · **What happens:** call, manifest, come · **To what, where:** mana, many ways, 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 (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:pg66516:15:60
# text = What the Hawaiians call mana, or supernatural power able to manifest itself in many ways, had come upon Hiiaka.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Hawaiians	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	mana	mana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	manifest	manifest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | the Hawaiians | mana |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mana=Recipient |
| 2 | **manifest** | to-infinitive | the Hawaiians *not said here* | mana |  | many ways |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past · perfect |  | many ways *not said here* |  | Hiiaka |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon hiiaka=Location |

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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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