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title: Hiiaka told Wahine-omao to cover her body with leaves and sticks nea… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Hiiaka told Wahine-omao to cover her body with leaves and sticks near the pali and in event of her death to return with the tidings to Hawaii. Who acts: Hiiaka. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 121

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Hiiaka told Wahine-omao to cover her body with leaves and sticks near the pali and in event of her death to return with the tidings to Hawaii.

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**Who acts:** Hiiaka · **What happens:** tell, cover, return, die · **To what, where:** Wahine omao, body, pali · **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: who acts (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:pg66516:20:121
# text = Hiiaka told Wahine-omao to cover her body with leaves and sticks near the pali and in event of her death to return with the tidings to Hawaii.
1	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Wahine	Wahine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	omao	omao	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	near	near	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	pali	pali	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Hiiaka | Wahine omao |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent omao=Recipient |
| 2 | **cover** | to-infinitive | Hiiaka *not said here* | Hiiaka's body |  | the pali and event of Hiiaka's death |  | with leaves and sticks | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent body=Destination with leaf=Theme |
| 3 | **return** | to-infinitive | Hiiaka *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the tidings to Hawaii | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **die** |  | Hiiaka |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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