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title: The black dog of the heavens, The yellow dog of Ku in the small clou… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The black dog of the heavens, The yellow dog of Ku in the small cloud, Ku is in the long cloud, Ku is in the short cloud, Ku is in the cloud of red spots in the sky. Who acts: Ku. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho, with its dependency tree a
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 170

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The black dog of the heavens, The yellow dog of Ku in the small cloud, Ku is in the long cloud, Ku is in the short cloud, Ku is in the cloud of red spots in the sky.

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**Who acts:** Ku · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** long cloud, short cloud, cloud, black dog

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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 (Ku), 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:pg66516:20:170
# text = The black dog of the heavens, The yellow dog of Ku in the small cloud, Ku is in the long cloud, Ku is in the short cloud, Ku is in the cloud of red spots in the sky.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Ku	Ku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	Ku	Ku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	Ku	Ku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	Ku	Ku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Ku |  |  | the long cloud and the short cloud and the cloud |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Ku |  |  | the short cloud and the cloud |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | Ku |  |  | the cloud |  | of red spots in the sky | tree rules |

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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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