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title: Wahine-omao said: “One of our people truly lives over there. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Wahine-omao said: “One of our people truly lives over there. Who acts: Wahine omao, people. 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 88

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Wahine-omao said: “One of our people truly lives over there.

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**Who acts:** Wahine omao, people · **What happens:** say, live · **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 (Wahine omao, people), 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:pg66516:17:88
# text = Wahine-omao said: “One of our people truly lives over there.
1	Wahine	Wahine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	omao	omao	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	ccomp	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	over	over	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Wahine omao |  |  |  |  | One of our people *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **live** *in a quote* | present | our people *not said here* |  |  | there |  | truly *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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