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title: “Night is at Pana-ewa and bitter is the storm; The branches of the t… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: “Night is at Pana-ewa and bitter is the storm; The branches of the trees are bent down; Rattling are the flowers and leaves of the lehua; Angrily growls the god Pana-ewa, Stirred up inside by his wrath. Who acts: Night, Rattling, god. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 63

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“Night is at Pana-ewa and bitter is the storm; The branches of the trees are bent down; Rattling are the flowers and leaves of the lehua; Angrily growls the god Pana-ewa, Stirred up inside by his wrath.

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**Who acts:** Night, Rattling, god · **What happens:** be, bend down, growl, ewa, stir up · **To what, where:** Pana ewa, bitter storm, branches, flowers · **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 (Night, Rattling, god), 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:pg66516:16:63
# text = “Night is at Pana-ewa and bitter is the storm; The branches of the trees are bent down; Rattling are the flowers and leaves of the lehua; Angrily growls the god Pana-ewa, Stirred up inside by his wrath.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Pana	Pana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	ewa	ewa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
14	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	Rattling	Rattling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	parataxis	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	lehua	lehua	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
33	Angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	growls	growl	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	Pana	Pana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	ewa	ewa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	Stirred	stir	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl	_	_
42	up	up	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
43	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
44	by	by	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Night |  |  | Pana ewa and the bitter storm |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Night *not said here* | the bitter storm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bend down** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the branches of the trees |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Rattling | the flowers and leaves of the lehua |  |  |  | leaves of the lehua *conj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **growl** *in a quote* | present | Night *not said here* |  |  |  |  | angrily *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **ewa** *in a quote* |  | the god |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **stir up** *in a quote* | participle |  | Pana ewa *not said here* |  |  |  | by Rattling's wrath; inside *property* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition |

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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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