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title: Hiiaka had seen Pele’s action as she had looked back from time to ti… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Hiiaka had seen Pele’s action as she had looked back from time to time on her journey to Kauai. Who acts: Hiiaka, Pele. 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 188

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Hiiaka had seen Pele’s action as she had looked back from time to time on her journey to Kauai.

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**Who acts:** Hiiaka, Pele · **What happens:** see, look back, act, journey · **To what, where:** action

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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, Pele), 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:pg66516:20:188
# text = Hiiaka had seen Pele’s action as she had looked back from time to time on her journey to Kauai.
1	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · perfect | Hiiaka | Pele's action |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer action=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look back** | past · perfect | Hiiaka |  |  |  | time |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **act** |  | Pele |  |  |  |  |  | nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **journey** |  | Pele |  |  |  |  | to Kauai | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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