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title: Na-maka-o-ka-hai went back to her lookout mountain. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Na-maka-o-ka-hai went back to her lookout mountain. 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 72

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Na-maka-o-ka-hai went back to her lookout mountain.

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**Who acts:** Na · **What happens:** go back

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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:pg66516:5:72
# text = Na-maka-o-ka-hai went back to her lookout mountain.
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	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	ka	ka	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	hai	Hai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	lookout	lookout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | past | Na and hai |  |  |  |  | to hai's lookout mountain *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to mountain=Result |

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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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