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title: The name is given because when looking at you her eyes are like a co… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The name is given because when looking at you her eyes are like a cord pulling you to her.” Who acts: eyes, cord. 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 90

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The name is given because when looking at you her eyes are like a cord pulling you to her.”

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**Who acts:** eyes, cord · **What happens:** give, look, be, pull · **To what, where:** name, you, omao

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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 (eyes, cord), 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:pg66516:17:90
# text = The name is given because when looking at you her eyes are like a cord pulling you to her.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
7	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
16	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	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 | **give** | present · passive |  | the name |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | omao's eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | omao's eyes |  |  |  |  | like a cord | tree rules |
| 4 | **pull** | gerund | a cord *not said here* | you | omao |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to she=Destination |

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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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