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title: Meanwhile Moo-lau had sent his people to spy out the condition of Hi… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile Moo-lau had sent his people to spy out the condition of 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 54

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Meanwhile Moo-lau had sent his people to spy out the condition of Hiiaka.

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**What happens:** send, spy out, condition · **To what, where:** Meanwhile Moo lau, condition, Hiiaka

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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: 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:pg66516:20:54
# text = Meanwhile Moo-lau had sent his people to spy out the condition of Hiiaka.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	Moo	moo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	lau	lau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	spy	spy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · perfect · passive |  | Meanwhile Moo lau |  |  |  | LAU's people *obj* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination people=Theme |
| 2 | **spy out** | to-infinitive |  | the condition of Hiiaka |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer condition=Stimulus |
| 3 | **condition** |  |  | Hiiaka |  |  |  |  | nom condition «state transitive»: of=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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