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title: There Ka-moho-alii provided them with the great boat Honua-i-a-kea (… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: There Ka-moho-alii provided them with the great boat Honua-i-a-kea (The great spread-out world) and carried them away to distant islands. Who acts: Ka moho alii, i. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii, with its dependency tree and th
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 64

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There Ka-moho-alii provided them with the great boat Honua-i-a-kea (The great spread-out world) and carried them away to distant islands.

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**Who acts:** Ka moho alii, i · **What happens:** provide, kea, carry away · **To what, where:** ka, distant islands

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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 (Ka moho alii, i), 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:pg66516:5:64
# text = There Ka-moho-alii provided them with the great boat Honua-i-a-kea (The great spread-out world) and carried them away to distant islands.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
2	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	moho	moho	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	alii	alii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	provided	provide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	Honua	Honua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	kea	kea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
23	spread	spread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	out	out	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | past | Ka moho alii | ka |  | there |  | with the great boat | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Recipient with boat=Theme |
| 2 | **kea** |  | i |  |  |  |  | the great out world *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry away** | past | Ka moho alii *not said here* | ka |  | distant islands |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to island=Destination |

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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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