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title: Then Hiiaka put forth her hand and took fresh water, pouring it over… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Hiiaka put forth her hand and took fresh water, pouring it over the body, chanting again: Who acts: Hiiaka. 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 68

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Then Hiiaka put forth her hand and took fresh water, pouring it over the body, chanting again:

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**Who acts:** Hiiaka · **What happens:** put, take, pour, chant · **To what, where:** hand, fresh water, struggle, body

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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 (Hiiaka), 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:pg66516:18:68
# text = Then Hiiaka put forth her hand and took fresh water, pouring it over the body, chanting again:
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	advcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	chanting	chant	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	conj	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Hiiaka | Hiiaka's hand |  |  | then | forth *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |
| 2 | **take** | past | Hiiaka *not said here* | fresh water |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 3 | **pour** | gerund | Hiiaka *not said here* | struggle |  | the body |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **chant** | gerund | Hiiaka *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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