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title: A greater sorcerer married Na-maka-o-ka-hai. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: A greater sorcerer married Na-maka-o-ka-hai. Who acts: greater sorcerer. 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 51

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A greater sorcerer married Na-maka-o-ka-hai.

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**Who acts:** greater sorcerer · **What happens:** marry · **To what, where:** Na

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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 (greater sorcerer), 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:pg66516:5:51
# text = A greater sorcerer married Na-maka-o-ka-hai.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Na	Na	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	maka	maka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	13	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	ka	ka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	hai	hai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past | a greater sorcerer | Na |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent na=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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