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title: The people even from Ka-wai-hae [a seaport on the opposite side of t… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The people even from Ka-wai-hae [a seaport on the opposite side of the mountains] saw this wonderful column with fire glowing and blazing to its very top. Who acts: people, fire. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, with its
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 26

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The people even from Ka-wai-hae \[a seaport on the opposite side of the mountains\] saw this wonderful column with fire glowing and blazing to its very top.

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**Who acts:** people, fire · **What happens:** hae, see, glow, blaze · **To what, where:** seaport, wonderful column, opposite side

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, fire), 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:pg66516:21:26
# text = The people even from Ka-wai-hae [a seaport on the opposite side of the mountains] saw this wonderful column with fire glowing and blazing to its very top.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	wai	wai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	hae	hae	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	seaport	seaport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	column	column	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	blazing	blaze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	very	very	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hae** | infinitive | the people | a seaport |  |  |  | Ka *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past |  | this wonderful column |  | the opposite side of the mountains |  | with fire | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer column=Stimulus |
| 3 | **glow** | gerund | fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **blaze** | gerund | fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to mountain's top | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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