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title: The oldest and most authoritative legends say that Kane-hoa-lani was… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The oldest and most authoritative legends say that Kane-hoa-lani was her brother and that Hina was the creator of a flood or great tidal wave which drove Pele from place to place over the ocean. Who acts: oldest legends, Kane hoa lani, Hina, great tidal wave. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volca
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 33

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The oldest and most authoritative legends say that Kane-hoa-lani was her brother and that Hina was the creator of a flood or great tidal wave which drove Pele from place to place over the ocean.

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**Who acts:** oldest legends, Kane hoa lani, Hina, great tidal wave · **What happens:** say, be, drive · **To what, where:** brother, creator, Pele, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (oldest legends, Kane hoa lani, Hina, great tidal wave), 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:pg66516:5:33
# text = The oldest and most authoritative legends say that Kane-hoa-lani was her brother and that Hina was the creator of a flood or great tidal wave which drove Pele from place to place over the ocean.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	authoritative	authoritative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
6	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
9	Kane	Kane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	hoa	hoa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	lani	lani	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	Hina	Hina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	creator	creator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	tidal	tidal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	over	over	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | oldest legends |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Kane hoa lani | legend's brother and the creator |  |  |  | legend *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Hina | the creator |  |  |  | of a flood or great tidal wave | tree rules |
| 4 | **drive** | past | great tidal wave | Pele |  | place to place over the ocean |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pele=Theme from place=Trajectory |

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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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