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title: Na-maka-o-ka-hai went to the highest of all the mythical lands of th… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Na-maka-o-ka-hai went to the highest of all the mythical lands of the ancestors, Nuu-mea-lani (The raised dais of heaven). Who acts: Na. 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 65

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Na-maka-o-ka-hai went to the highest of all the mythical lands of the ancestors, Nuu-mea-lani (The raised dais of heaven).

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**Who acts:** Na · **What happens:** go, raise · **To what, where:** highest

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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 (Na), 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:pg66516:5:65
# text = Na-maka-o-ka-hai went to the highest of all the mythical lands of the ancestors, Nuu-mea-lani (The raised dais of heaven).
1	Na	Na	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	maka	maka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	10	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	ka	ka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	hai	hai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	mythical	mythical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	Nuu	Nuu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	mea	mea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	lani	lani	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	dais	dais	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Na |  |  | the highest of all mythical lands of the ancestors and Nuu mea lani |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to high=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **raise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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