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title: Wahine-omao went to Hiiaka and softly chanted by the side of the cra… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Wahine-omao went to Hiiaka and softly chanted by the side of the crazy one who was breaking up the pit. Who acts: Wahine omao, crazy one. 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 239

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Wahine-omao went to Hiiaka and softly chanted by the side of the crazy one who was breaking up the pit.

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**Who acts:** Wahine omao, crazy one · **What happens:** go, chant, break up · **To what, where:** Hiiaka, pit

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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 (Wahine omao, crazy one), 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:pg66516:20:239
# text = Wahine-omao went to Hiiaka and softly chanted by the side of the crazy one who was breaking up the pit.
1	Wahine	Wahine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	omao	omao	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	chanted	chant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	crazy	crazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Wahine omao |  |  | Hiiaka |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hiiaka=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **chant** | participle | Wahine omao *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the side of the crazy one; softly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **break up** | past · progressive | the crazy one | the pit |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pit=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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