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title: Mimiki is defined as a meeting of a returning wave with another adva… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Mimiki is defined as a meeting of a returning wave with another advancing, and is sometimes used to express the confusion of advancing and returning tidal waves. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 142

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Mimiki is defined as a meeting of a returning wave with another advancing, and is sometimes used to express the confusion of advancing and returning tidal waves.

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**What happens:** define, return, use, express, confuse · **To what, where:** Mimiki, confusion, tidal waves, advancing

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66516:27:142
# text = Mimiki is defined as a meeting of a returning wave with another advancing, and is sometimes used to express the confusion of advancing and returning tidal waves.
1	Mimiki	Mimiki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	defined	define	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	returning	return	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	advancing	advancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
18	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	express	express	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	advancing	advancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
27	tidal	tidal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **define** | present · passive |  | Mimiki |  |  |  | as a meeting of a returning wave with another advancing | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as meeting=Attribute |
| 2 | **return** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **express** | to-infinitive |  | the confusion of advancing |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confusion=Theme |
| 5 | **return** | gerund |  | tidal waves |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Theme |
| 6 | **confuse** |  |  | advancing |  |  |  |  | nom confusion «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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