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title: The story of Hiiaka’s journey over the seas which surround the Hawai… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The story of Hiiaka’s journey over the seas which surround the Hawaiian Islands, and through dangers and perplexities, cannot be fully told in the limits of these short stories. Who acts: seas, Hiiaka. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho, with
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 72

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The story of Hiiaka’s journey over the seas which surround the Hawaiian Islands, and through dangers and perplexities, cannot be fully told in the limits of these short stories.

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**Who acts:** seas, Hiiaka · **What happens:** surround, not tell, journey · **To what, where:** Hawaiian Islands, story, dangers, seas · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (seas, 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:pg66516:20:72
# text = The story of Hiiaka’s journey over the seas which surround the Hawaiian Islands, and through dangers and perplexities, cannot be fully told in the limits of these short stories.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	surround	surround	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	dangers	danger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	perplexities	perplexity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
32	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surround** | present | the seas | the Hawaiian Islands |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme island=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can · passive |  | the story of Hiiaka's journey over the seas *not said here* |  | dangers and perplexities |  | in the limits of this short stories; fully *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **journey** |  | Hiiaka |  |  | the seas |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent over=place |

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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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