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title: Then there was added the human helper, Wahine-omao, or “the light-co… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Then there was added the human helper, Wahine-omao, or “the light-colored woman.” 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 4

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Then there was added the human helper, Wahine-omao, or “the light-colored woman.”

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**What happens:** add, color · **To what, where:** human helper · **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: 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:pg66516:17:4
# text = Then there was added the human helper, Wahine-omao, or “the light-colored woman.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	helper	helper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	Wahine	Wahine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	omao	omao	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | the human helper and Wahine omao or the colored woman |  | there | then |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: helper=Patient |
| 2 | **color** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | light *compound* | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: 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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