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title: Fallen are the red flowers of the lehua, [16] Spoiled are the red ap… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Fallen are the red flowers of the lehua, [16] Spoiled are the red apples of the ohia,[16] Bald is the head of Pana-ewa; Smoke is over the land; The fire is burning.” Who acts: Smoke, red flowers, 16, fire. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka’s Battle
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 41

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Fallen are the red flowers of the lehua, \[16\] Spoiled are the red apples of the ohia,\[16\] Bald is the head of Pana-ewa; Smoke is over the land; The fire is burning.”

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**Who acts:** Smoke, red flowers, 16, fire · **What happens:** fall, spoil, be, burn · **To what, where:** red flowers, red apples, head, land

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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 (Smoke, red flowers, 16, fire), 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:pg66516:16:41
# text = Fallen are the red flowers of the lehua, [16] Spoiled are the red apples of the ohia,[16] Bald is the head of Pana-ewa; Smoke is over the land; The fire is burning.”
1	Fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	advcl	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	aux:pass	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lehua	lehua	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	Spoiled	spoil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	parataxis	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ohia	ohia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	Bald	Bald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:unmarked	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	Pana	Pana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	ewa	ewa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
34	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
36	over	over	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
40	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	43	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | present · passive | Smoke *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V» |
| 2 | **spoil** | participle |  | the red flowers of the lehua *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the red flowers of the lehua | the red apples and the head |  |  |  | of the ohia | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | 16  Bald | the head |  |  |  | of Pana ewa | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | Smoke |  |  | the land |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **burn** | present · progressive | the fire |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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