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title: Hiiaka remembered that there were two dragons in the river Wailuku,… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Hiiaka remembered that there were two dragons in the river Wailuku, a river of swift cascades and beautiful waterfalls near Hilo, so she turned back filled with the wish to destroy them and free the people from that danger. Who acts: Hiiaka, two dragons. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 1

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Hiiaka remembered that there were two dragons in the river Wailuku, a river of swift cascades and beautiful waterfalls near Hilo, so she turned back filled with the wish to destroy them and free the people from that danger.

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**Who acts:** Hiiaka, two dragons · **What happens:** remember, be, turn back, fill, destroy · **To what, where:** dragons, danger

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hiiaka, two dragons), 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:pg66516:20:1
# text = Hiiaka remembered that there were two dragons in the river Wailuku, a river of swift cascades and beautiful waterfalls near Hilo, so she turned back filled with the wish to destroy them and free the people from that danger.
1	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Wailuku	Wailuku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	swift	swift	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	cascades	cascade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	waterfalls	waterfall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	near	near	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Hilo	Hilo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	ccomp	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	det	_	_
41	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | past | Hiiaka |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | two dragons in the river Wailuku |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **turn back** | past | Hiiaka |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fill** | participle | Hiiaka *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the wish | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with wish=Instrument |
| 5 | **destroy** | to-infinitive | Hiiaka *not said here* | dragons *= dragon* |  | that danger |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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