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title: Hiiaka swiftly swept her lightning skirt up against the beating rain… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Hiiaka swiftly swept her lightning skirt up against the beating rain and drove it back. Who acts: Hiiaka, lightning. 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 54

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Hiiaka swiftly swept her lightning skirt up against the beating rain and drove it back.

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**Who acts:** Hiiaka, lightning · **What happens:** sweep, skirt up, drive back · **To what, where:** rain, lightning

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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, lightning), 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:pg66516:16:54
# text = Hiiaka swiftly swept her lightning skirt up against the beating rain and drove it back.
1	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	skirt	skirt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	against	against	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	beating	beating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweep** | past | Hiiaka | rain |  |  |  | swiftly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **skirt up** | present | lightning |  |  |  |  | against the beating rain | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **drive back** | past | Hiiaka *not said here* | lightning |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme it=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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