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title: Hiiaka followed the spirit voice and soon saw a coconut closed up wi… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Hiiaka followed the spirit voice and soon saw a coconut closed up with feathers. 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 of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 150

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Hiiaka followed the spirit voice and soon saw a coconut closed up with feathers.

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**Who acts:** Hiiaka · **What happens:** follow, see, close up · **To what, where:** spirit voice, coconut

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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:pg66516:20:150
# text = Hiiaka followed the spirit voice and soon saw a coconut closed up with feathers.
1	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	followed	follow	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	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	coconut	coconut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | Hiiaka | the spirit voice |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | Hiiaka *not said here* | a coconut |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coconut=Stimulus |
| 3 | **close up** | participle |  | a coconut *not said here* |  |  |  | with feathers | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with feather=Theme |

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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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