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title: There she could look over all the seas from Ka-la-kee-nui-a-Kane to… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: There she could look over all the seas from Ka-la-kee-nui-a-Kane to Kauai, i.e., from a legendary land in the south to the most northerly part of the Hawaiian Islands. Who acts: alii. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii, with its dep
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 66

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There she could look over all the seas from Ka-la-kee-nui-a-Kane to Kauai, i.e., from a legendary land in the south to the most northerly part of the Hawaiian Islands.

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**Who acts:** alii · **What happens:** look

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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 (alii), 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:pg66516:5:66
# text = There she could look over all the seas from Ka-la-kee-nui-a-Kane to Kauai, i.e., from a legendary land in the south to the most northerly part of the Hawaiian Islands.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	la	la	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	kee	kee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	nui	nui	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Kane	Kane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	20	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	legendary	legendary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	36	advmod	_	_
36	northerly	northerly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | could | alii |  |  | there |  | from Ka; over all seas | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over sea=Theme |

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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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