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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 216

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This could not harm Hiiaka, for she was at home in the worst violence of volcanic flames, but it meant death to Lohiau.

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**Who acts:** This, Hiiaka, violence · **What happens:** not harm, be, mean · **To what, where:** Hiiaka, worst violence, death, Lohiau

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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 (This, Hiiaka, violence), 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:pg66516:20:216
# text = This could not harm Hiiaka, for she was at home in the worst violence of volcanic flames, but it meant death to Lohiau.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
23	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Lohiau	Lohiau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **harm** | could | This | Hiiaka |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hiiaka=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | Hiiaka |  |  | the worst violence of volcanic flames |  | for home | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | past | violence | death | Lohiau |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot death=Theme to lohiau=Attribute |

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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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