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title: He tried to wash her into the sea by pushing great, whirling waves a… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: He tried to wash her into the sea by pushing great, whirling waves against her, but Hiiaka struck him with the mighty forces of lightning and fire which she had in her magic skirt. Who acts: MAKAUKIU, Hiiaka. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka and t
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 29

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He tried to wash her into the sea by pushing great, whirling waves against her, but Hiiaka struck him with the mighty forces of lightning and fire which she had in her magic skirt.

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**Who acts:** MAKAUKIU, Hiiaka · **What happens:** try, wash, push, whirl, strike, have · **To what, where:** water, sea, waves, MAKAUKIU, lightning, magic skirt

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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 (MAKAUKIU, 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:pg66516:19:29
# text = He tried to wash her into the sea by pushing great, whirling waves against her, but Hiiaka struck him with the mighty forces of lightning and fire which she had in her magic skirt.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	whirling	whirl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
14	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	against	against	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	skirt	skirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | MAKAUKIU |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **wash** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | MAKAUKIU *not said here* | water |  | the sea |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 3 | **push** | gerund | MAKAUKIU *not said here* |  |  |  |  | great *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **whirl** | gerund | MAKAUKIU *not said here* | waves |  |  |  | against water | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wave=Theme |
| 5 | **strike** | past | Hiiaka | MAKAUKIU |  |  |  | with the mighty forces of lightning and fire | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with force=Instrument |
| 6 | **have** | past | Hiiaka | lightning and fire |  | water's magic skirt |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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