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title: One of the legends says that even while Lohiau and Hiiaka were embra… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: One of the legends says that even while Lohiau and Hiiaka were embracing each other Pele ran up the hill and threw her arms around his feet and black lava congealed over them. Who acts: One, Lohiau. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho, with it
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 211

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One of the legends says that even while Lohiau and Hiiaka were embracing each other Pele ran up the hill and threw her arms around his feet and black lava congealed over them.

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**Who acts:** One, Lohiau · **What happens:** say, embrace, run up, throw, congeal · **To what, where:** other Pele, hill, arms, feet, black lava · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (One, Lohiau), 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:pg66516:20:211
# text = One of the legends says that even while Lohiau and Hiiaka were embracing each other Pele ran up the hill and threw her arms around his feet and black lava congealed over them.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	Lohiau	Lohiau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	embracing	embrace	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	around	around	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	congealed	congeal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	over	over	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | One of the legends |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **embrace** | past · progressive | Lohiau and Hiiaka | each other Pele |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pele=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **run up** | past |  | the hill |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hill=Trajectory |
| 4 | **throw** | past |  | Pele's arms |  | arm's feet and black lava |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arm=Theme around foot=Destination |
| 5 | **congeal** | participle |  | black lava *not said here* |  |  |  | over feet *= foot* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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