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title: The sun waited and its light rested on the precipice and pierced the… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The sun waited and its light rested on the precipice and pierced the deep shadows of the cave in which the body lay while Hiiaka sought Lohiau. Who acts: sun, body, Hiiaka. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 148

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The sun waited and its light rested on the precipice and pierced the deep shadows of the cave in which the body lay while Hiiaka sought Lohiau.

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**Who acts:** sun, body, Hiiaka · **What happens:** wait, rest, pierce, lie, seek, light · **To what, where:** light, precipice, deep shadows, cave, Lohiau

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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 (sun, body, 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:pg66516:20:148
# text = The sun waited and its light rested on the precipice and pierced the deep shadows of the cave in which the body lay while Hiiaka sought Lohiau.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	rested	rest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	precipice	precipice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	pierced	pierce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
27	Lohiau	Lohiau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  | sun's light *conj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rest** | participle |  | sun's light *not said here* |  | the precipice |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on precipice=Location |
| 3 | **pierce** | past | the sun *not said here* | the deep shadows of the cave |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Patient |
| 4 | **lie** | past | the body |  |  | the cave |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location |
| 5 | **seek** | past | Hiiaka | Lohiau |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lohiau=Theme |
| 6 | **light** |  | sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **shadow** |  |  | the cave |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=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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