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title: The place where this monster was slain was given his name and is sti… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The place where this monster was slain was given his name and is still called “The Swimming-Hole of Makaukiu.” Who acts: MAKAUKIU. 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 claus
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 31

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The place where this monster was slain was given his name and is still called “The Swimming-Hole of Makaukiu.”

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**Who acts:** MAKAUKIU · **What happens:** slay, give, call, name · **To what, where:** monster, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg66516:19:31
# text = The place where this monster was slain was given his name and is still called “The Swimming-Hole of Makaukiu.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	Swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Hole	Hole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Makaukiu	Makaukiu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slay** | past · passive |  | this monster |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | past · passive |  | the place |  |  |  | MAKAUKIU's name *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient name=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | present · passive |  |  |  |  | still | the Swimming Hole of Makaukiu *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **name** |  | MAKAUKIU |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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