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title: Then Hiiaka thought of Moo-lau, who was the great dragon-god of the… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Hiiaka thought of Moo-lau, who was the great dragon-god of the district Kohala. Who acts: Hiiaka, Moo lau. 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 31

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Then Hiiaka thought of Moo-lau, who was the great dragon-god of the district Kohala.

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**Who acts:** Hiiaka, Moo lau · **What happens:** think, be · **To what, where:** great dragon god

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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, Moo lau), 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:pg66516:20:31
# text = Then Hiiaka thought of Moo-lau, who was the great dragon-god of the district Kohala.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Moo	moo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	lau	lau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	Kohala	Kohala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Hiiaka |  |  |  | then | of Moo lau | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Moo lau | the great dragon god |  |  |  | of the district | tree rules |

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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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