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title: Hina is sometimes said to be Ku-waha-ilo’s sister in these legends. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Hina is sometimes said to be Ku-waha-ilo’s sister in these legends. Who acts: you. 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.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 44

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Hina is sometimes said to be Ku-waha-ilo’s sister in these legends.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** Hina, ilo sister, legends · **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 (you), 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:pg66516:5:44
# text = Hina is sometimes said to be Ku-waha-ilo’s sister in these legends.
1	Hina	Hina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
7	Ku	Ku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	waha	waha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	ilo	ilo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 · passive |  | Hina |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | imperative | you *not said here* | ilo sister |  | this legends |  |  | 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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