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description: They turned aside through the red-fruited tall ohia trees to a resting-place called Papa-lau-ahi, or the fireleaf of lava spread out flat like a board. Who acts: sideways, resting place. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, with
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 81

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They turned aside through the red-fruited tall ohia trees to a resting-place called Papa-lau-ahi, or the fireleaf of lava spread out flat like a board.

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**Who acts:** sideways, resting place · **What happens:** turn, fruit, call, spread out · **To what, where:** fruited tall ohia trees, Papa lau ahi, fireleaf · **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 (sideways, resting place), 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:pg66516:17:81
# text = They turned aside through the red-fruited tall ohia trees to a resting-place called Papa-lau-ahi, or the fireleaf of lava spread out flat like a board.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	fruited	fruit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
9	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	ohia	ohia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	resting	resting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	Papa	Papa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	lau	lau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	ahi	ahi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fireleaf	fireleaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	flat	flat	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	like	like	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | sideways *= sideway* |  |  | the fruited tall ohia trees |  | to a resting place; the fireleaf of lava *parataxis*; aside *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme through tree=Source to place=Trajectory |
| 2 | **fruit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | participle | a resting place *not said here* | Papa lau ahi |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **spread out** | participle |  | the fireleaf of lava *not said here* |  |  |  | like a board; flat *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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