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title: Hiiaka, throwing aside her flower-wreaths and common clothes, took h… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Hiiaka, throwing aside her flower-wreaths and common clothes, took her lightning pa-u (skirt) and attacked Moo-lau. 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 36

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Hiiaka, throwing aside her flower-wreaths and common clothes, took her lightning pa-u (skirt) and attacked Moo-lau.

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**Who acts:** Hiiaka · **What happens:** throw, take, attack · **To what, where:** chief, Moo lau

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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:pg66516:20:36
# text = Hiiaka, throwing aside her flower-wreaths and common clothes, took her lightning pa-u (skirt) and attacked Moo-lau.
1	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
4	aside	aside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	wreaths	wreath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
16	pa	pa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	u	u	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	skirt	skirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	attacked	attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	Moo	moo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	lau	lau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | gerund | Hiiaka *not said here* |  |  |  |  | aside Hiiaka's flower wreaths and common clothes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **take** | past | Hiiaka | chief |  |  |  | lightning pa u *obj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Theme u=Destination |
| 3 | **attack** | past | Hiiaka *not said here* | Moo lau |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lau=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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