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title: The two little birds flew over the battlefield and saw Hiiaka nearly… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The two little birds flew over the battlefield and saw Hiiaka nearly dead from wounds and weariness, and their own gods of the forest lying as if asleep. Who acts: two little birds, forest. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, wi
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 70

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The two little birds flew over the battlefield and saw Hiiaka nearly dead from wounds and weariness, and their own gods of the forest lying as if asleep.

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**Who acts:** two little birds, forest · **What happens:** fly, see, lie · **To what, where:** own gods, battlefield, Hiiaka

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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 (two little birds, forest), 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:pg66516:16:70
# text = The two little birds flew over the battlefield and saw Hiiaka nearly dead from wounds and weariness, and their own gods of the forest lying as if asleep.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	battlefield	battlefield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	weariness	weariness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | the two little birds | birds's own gods of the forest |  | the battlefield |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over battlefield=Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | the two little birds *not said here* | Hiiaka |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hiiaka=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | the forest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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