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description: Many were the evil demi-gods who tried to hinder Hiiaka in her journey along the east coast of the island Hawaii. Who acts: Many evil demi gods, 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 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 62

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Many were the evil demi-gods who tried to hinder Hiiaka in her journey along the east coast of the island Hawaii.

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**Who acts:** Many evil demi gods, Hiiaka · **What happens:** be, try, hinder, journey · **To what, where:** Many evil demi gods, Hiiaka, journey

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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 (Many evil demi gods, 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:pg66516:20:62
# text = Many were the evil demi-gods who tried to hinder Hiiaka in her journey along the east coast of the island Hawaii.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	demi	demi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	hinder	hinder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	along	along	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	east	east	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the Many evil demi gods |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **try** | past | the Many evil demi gods |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **hinder** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Many evil demi gods *not said here* | Hiiaka |  | Hiiaka's journey |  | along the east coast of the island | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer hiiaka=Eventuality |
| 4 | **journey** |  | Hiiaka |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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