--- title: Hiiaka heard the spirit voice saying, “Moving, moving, you will find… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics description: Hiiaka heard the spirit voice saying, “Moving, moving, you will find me in a small coconut calabash fastened in tight.” Who acts: Hiiaka, spirit voice, you. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/20/149/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mytholo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/) / [Pili and Noho](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/20/) / 149 # Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 149 Hiiaka heard the spirit voice saying, “Moving, moving, you will find me in a small coconut calabash fastened in tight.” **Who acts:** Hiiaka, spirit voice, you · **What happens:** hear, say, move, find, fasten · **To what, where:** spirit voice, small coconut calabash, tight · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, spirit voice, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66516:20:149 # text = Hiiaka heard the spirit voice saying, “Moving, moving, you will find me in a small coconut calabash fastened in tight.” 1 Hiiaka Hiiaka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 “ " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 coconut coconut NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 calabash calabash NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 22 fastened fasten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 tight tight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | Hiiaka | the spirit voice | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the spirit voice *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **move** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **move** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **find** *in a quote* | future | you | the spirit voice *= voice* | | a small coconut calabash | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic | | 6 | **fasten** *in a quote* | participle | | a small coconut calabash *not said here* | | tight | | | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/20/148/) - next →: [sentence 150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/20/150/) - ↑ back to [Pili and Noho](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/20/)