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title: She was the wife of Na-ihe, who was the high chief of the district o… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: She was the wife of Na-ihe, who was the high chief of the district of Kona on the western side of the island Hawaii. Who acts: Kapiolani, wife. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 9

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She was the wife of Na-ihe, who was the high chief of the district of Kona on the western side of the island Hawaii.

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**Who acts:** Kapiolani, wife · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** wife, high chief, western side

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kapiolani, wife), 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:pg66516:23:9
# text = She was the wife of Na-ihe, who was the high chief of the district of Kona on the western side of the island Hawaii.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Na	Na	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	ihe	ihe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Kona	Kona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Kapiolani | the wife and the high chief |  |  |  | of Na ihe | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the wife and the high chief | the high chief |  | the western side of the island |  | of the district of Kona | tree rules |

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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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