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title: When you arrive at the pit throw the pig down into the fire and retu… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: When you arrive at the pit throw the pig down into the fire and return quickly, saying, ‘O Ku! Who acts: you. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 36

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When you arrive at the pit throw the pig down into the fire and return quickly, saying, ‘O Ku!

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** arrive, throw down, return, say · **To what, where:** pit, pig, fire, Ku · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you), 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:pg66516:17:36
# text = When you arrive at the pit throw the pig down into the fire and return quickly, saying, ‘O Ku!
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	arrive	arrive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
22	Ku	Ku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | present | you |  |  | the pit |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **throw down** | imperative | you *not said here* | the pig |  |  |  | into the fire *result*; down *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer pig=Theme into fire=Result |
| 3 | **return** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | you *not said here* | Ku |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ku=Topic |

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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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