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title: Pele ordered Pau-o-palae to go with Hiiaka as her kahu, or guardian… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Pele ordered Pau-o-palae to go with Hiiaka as her kahu, or guardian servant. Who acts: Pele. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 11

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Pele ordered Pau-o-palae to go with Hiiaka as her kahu, or guardian servant.

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**Who acts:** Pele · **What happens:** order, go · **To what, where:** Pau

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons. 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:pg66516:16:11
# text = Pele ordered Pau-o-palae to go with Hiiaka as her kahu, or guardian servant.
1	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Pau	Pau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	palae	palae	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	kahu	kahu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	guardian	guardian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | Pele |  | Pau |  |  | guardian servant *parataxis* | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent pau=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Pele *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Hiiaka; as Pau's kahu | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with hiiaka=Beneficiary |

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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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