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title: Here are dried fish and the kilu-ai [a-little-calabash-full-of-poi,… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Here are dried fish and the kilu-ai [a-little-calabash-full-of-poi, the native food].” Who acts: dried fish. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 5

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Here are dried fish and the kilu-ai \[a-little-calabash-full-of-poi, the native food\].”

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**Who acts:** dried fish · **What happens:** be, dry

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka Catching a Ghost. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dried fish), 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:pg66516:18:5
# text = Here are dried fish and the kilu-ai [a-little-calabash-full-of-poi, the native food].”
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	kilu	kilu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
10	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	calabash	calabash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	poi	poi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | dried fish |  |  |  |  | the ai *conj*; here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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