--- title: Evidently in a very short time the egg was changed into a beautiful… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics description: Evidently in a very short time the egg was changed into a beautiful little girl who bore the name Hii-aka-i-ka-poli-o-Pele (Hiiaka-in-the-bosom-of-Pele), the youngest one of the Pele family. Who acts: beautiful little girl. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful little girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66516:5:12 # text = Evidently in a very short time the egg was changed into a beautiful little girl who bore the name Hii-aka-i-ka-poli-o-Pele (Hiiaka-in-the-bosom-of-Pele), the youngest one of the Pele family. 1 Evidently evidently ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 bore bear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 Hii Hii PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 aka aka ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 i I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ka ka X FW Foreign=Yes 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 poli poli NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 o of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 32 case _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 Pele Pele PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 Hiiaka Hiiaka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 bosom bosom NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ SpaceAfter=No 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 Pele Pele PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 49 amod _ _ 49 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 50 of of ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 52 Pele Pele PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 compound _ _ 53 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | past · passive | | the egg | | | time | into a beautiful little girl *result*; evidently *property* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into girl=Result | | 2 | **bear** | past | a beautiful little girl | the name | | | | aka *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/5/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/5/13/) - ↑ back to [How Pele Came to Hawaii](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/5/)