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title: Hiiaka and her friends turned north again and hastened to Waipio Val… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Hiiaka and her friends turned north again and hastened to Waipio Valley to catch Mahiki—the demon of the whirlwind. Who acts: Hiiaka. 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 24

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Hiiaka and her friends turned north again and hastened to Waipio Valley to catch Mahiki—the demon of the whirlwind.

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**Who acts:** Hiiaka · **What happens:** turn, hasten, catch · **To what, where:** Waipio Valley, Mahiki

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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), 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:pg66516:20:24
# text = Hiiaka and her friends turned north again and hastened to Waipio Valley to catch Mahiki—the demon of the whirlwind.
1	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	north	north	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Waipio	Waipio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
15	Mahiki	Mahiki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | Hiiaka and Hiiaka's friends |  |  |  | again | north *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hasten** | participle | Hiiaka and Hiiaka's friends *not said here* |  | Waipio Valley |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to valley=Result |
| 3 | **catch** | to-infinitive | Hiiaka and Hiiaka's friends *not said here* | Mahiki |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mahiki=Theme |

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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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