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title: At last Hiiaka turned to say farewell to Wahine-omao because the nex… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: At last Hiiaka turned to say farewell to Wahine-omao because the next fight with the dragons in their new bodies might prove fatal. Who acts: last Hiiaka, next fight. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 131

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At last Hiiaka turned to say farewell to Wahine-omao because the next fight with the dragons in their new bodies might prove fatal.

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**Who acts:** last Hiiaka, next fight · **What happens:** turn, say, prove · **To what, where:** farewell, Wahine omao · **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 (last Hiiaka, next fight), 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:pg66516:20:131
# text = At last Hiiaka turned to say farewell to Wahine-omao because the next fight with the dragons in their new bodies might prove fatal.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	farewell	farewell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Wahine	Wahine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	omao	omao	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
23	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
25	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | last Hiiaka |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | last Hiiaka *not said here* | farewell | Wahine omao |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent farewell=Topic to omao=Recipient |
| 3 | **prove** | might | the next fight with the dragons in dragons's new bodies |  |  |  |  | fatal *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=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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