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title: It was the fish into which the fabled demi-god Kamapuaa changed hims… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the fish into which the fabled demi-god Kamapuaa changed himself when fleeing from the destructive fires of Pele. Who acts: pig, fabled demi god. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 20

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It was the fish into which the fabled demi-god Kamapuaa changed himself when fleeing from the destructive fires of Pele.

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**Who acts:** pig, fabled demi god · **What happens:** be, fable, change, flee, fire · **To what, where:** fish, god, destructive fires, Pele

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pig, fabled demi 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:pg66516:17:20
# text = It was the fish into which the fabled demi-god Kamapuaa changed himself when fleeing from the destructive fires of Pele.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	fabled	fable	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
9	demi	demi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	Kamapuaa	Kamapuaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
13	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	fleeing	flee	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	destructive	destructive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | pig | the fish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fable** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **change** | past | the fabled demi god | god |  |  |  | into the fish | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into which=Result |
| 4 | **flee** | gerund | the fabled demi god *not said here* |  |  | the destructive fires of Pele |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from fire=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **fire** |  |  | Pele |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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