---
title: The Hawaiians say that the desire for battle was burning in the hear… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The Hawaiians say that the desire for battle was burning in the heart of Hiiaka and she longed to kill Mahiki, who lived near Waipio Valley—one of the most beautiful of all the valleys of the Hawaiian Islands. Who acts: Hawaiians, desire, Mahiki. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mytholo
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/19/33/)

<!-- 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/) / 33

# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 33

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Hawaiians say that the desire for battle was burning in the heart of Hiiaka and she longed to kill Mahiki, who lived near Waipio Valley—one of the most beautiful of all the valleys of the Hawaiian Islands.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Hawaiians, desire, Mahiki · **What happens:** say, burn, long, kill, live · **To what, where:** heart, Mahiki, one, Waipio Valley · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .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 (Hawaiians, desire, Mahiki), 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:pg66516:19:33
# text = The Hawaiians say that the desire for battle was burning in the heart of Hiiaka and she longed to kill Mahiki, who lived near Waipio Valley—one of the most beautiful of all the valleys of the Hawaiian Islands.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Hawaiians	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	longed	long	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	Mahiki	Mahiki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	near	near	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Waipio	Waipio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	33	advmod	_	_
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	37	det:predet	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Hawaiians |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **burn** | past · progressive | the desire for battle |  |  | the heart of Hiiaka |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=Location |
| 3 | **long** | past | desire |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **kill** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | desire *not said here* | Mahiki |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mahiki=Theme |
| 5 | **live** | past | Mahiki | one |  | Waipio Valley |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near valley=Location |

<!-- .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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/19/32/)
- next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/19/34/)
- ↑ back to [Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/19/)