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title: The name Hopoe may mean “one encircled,” as with leis, or wreaths, o… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The name Hopoe may mean “one encircled,” as with leis, or wreaths, or as with loving arms, or possibly it might convey the idea of one set apart in a special class or company. Who acts: name, leis. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Hiiaka Found Wahine
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 93

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The name Hopoe may mean “one encircled,” as with leis, or wreaths, or as with loving arms, or possibly it might convey the idea of one set apart in a special class or company.

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**Who acts:** name, leis · **What happens:** mean, encircle, convey · **To what, where:** one, idea, special class · **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 (name, leis), 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:pg66516:17:93
# text = The name Hopoe may mean “one encircled,” as with leis, or wreaths, or as with loving arms, or possibly it might convey the idea of one set apart in a special class or company.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Hopoe	Hopoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
8	encircled	encircle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	leis	leis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	wreaths	wreath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	convey	convey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | may | the name | one or wreaths |  |  |  | loving arms *conj* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
| 2 | **encircle** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as leis | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **convey** | might | leis | the idea of one set |  | a special class or company |  | apart, possibly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent idea=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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