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title: Hiiaka told her friend to hold fast to her girdle while she led the… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Hiiaka told her friend to hold fast to her girdle while she led the way, sweeping aside the fog with her magic skirt. Who acts: Hiiaka. 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 cla
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 50

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Hiiaka told her friend to hold fast to her girdle while she led the way, sweeping aside the fog with her magic skirt.

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**Who acts:** Hiiaka · **What happens:** tell, hold, lead, sweep · **To what, where:** friend, way, fog · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Hiiaka), 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:pg66516:16:50
# text = Hiiaka told her friend to hold fast to her girdle while she led the way, sweeping aside the fog with her magic skirt.
1	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	girdle	girdle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	sweeping	sweep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	skirt	skirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Hiiaka |  | Hiiaka's friend |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hold** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Hiiaka *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Hiiaka's girdle; fast *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lead** | past | Hiiaka | the way |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 4 | **sweep** | gerund | Hiiaka *not said here* | the fog |  |  |  | with Hiiaka's magic skirt; aside *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fog=Trajectory |

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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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