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title: But the small spirit voice of Lohiau called for Hiiaka to come and g… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: But the small spirit voice of Lohiau called for Hiiaka to come and get him. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 111

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But the small spirit voice of Lohiau called for Hiiaka to come and get him.

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**What happens:** call, come, get · **To what, where:** small spirit voice, door · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:pg66516:20:111
# text = But the small spirit voice of Lohiau called for Hiiaka to come and get him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Lohiau	Lohiau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle · passive |  | the small spirit voice of Lohiau |  |  |  | for Hiiaka | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for hiiaka=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | infinitive |  | door |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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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