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title: “The lehua is being covered by the sand, A little red flower remains… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: “The lehua is being covered by the sand, A little red flower remains on the plain, The body is hidden in the stones, The flower is lying in the path. Who acts: sand, flower. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho, with its dependency tree and the
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 82

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“The lehua is being covered by the sand, A little red flower remains on the plain, The body is hidden in the stones, The flower is lying in the path.

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**Who acts:** sand, flower · **What happens:** cover, hide, lie · **To what, where:** lehua, body, stones, path

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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 (sand, flower), 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:pg66516:20:82
# text = “The lehua is being covered by the sand, A little red flower remains on the plain, The body is hidden in the stones, The flower is lying in the path.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lehua	lehua	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	obl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** *in a quote* | present · passive | the sand | the lehua |  |  |  | a little red flower remains on the plain *obl* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination |
| 2 | **hide** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the body |  | the stones |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in stone=Location |
| 3 | **lie** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the flower |  |  | the path |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in path=Location |

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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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