--- title: In this legend her father was Moe-moea-au-lii, the chief who dreamed… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics description: In this legend her father was Moe-moea-au-lii, the chief who dreamed of trouble. Who acts: Moe, chief. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/5/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mytholo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/) / [How Pele Came to Hawaii](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/5/) / 2 # Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 2 In this legend her father was Moe-moea-au-lii, the chief who dreamed of trouble. **Who acts:** Moe, chief · **What happens:** be, dream · **To what, where:** moea au lii, legend This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moe, chief), 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:pg66516:5:2 # text = In this legend her father was Moe-moea-au-lii, the chief who dreamed of trouble. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 7 Moe Moe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 moea moea NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 au au NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 lii lii NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 chief chief NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 dreamed dream VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Moe | moea au lii | | this legend and legend's father | | the chief *appos* | tree rules | | 2 | **dream** | past | the chief | | | | | of trouble | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | 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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/5/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/5/3/) - ↑ back to [How Pele Came to Hawaii](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/5/)