---
title: In one valley beautiful clear sea-water invited the girls to bathe. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: In one valley beautiful clear sea-water invited the girls to bathe. Who acts: beautiful clear sea water, girls. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/19/20/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mytholo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/) / [Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/19/) / 20

# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 20

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In one valley beautiful clear sea-water invited the girls to bathe.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** beautiful clear sea water, girls · **What happens:** invite, bathe · **To what, where:** girls, one valley

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful clear sea water, girls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66516:19:20
# text = In one valley beautiful clear sea-water invited the girls to bathe.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	invited	invite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	bathe	bathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invite** | past | beautiful clear sea water | the girls |  | one valley |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bathe** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/19/19/)
- next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/19/21/)
- ↑ back to [Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/19/)