--- title: Na-maka-o-ka-hai went off toward Nuu-mea-lani rejoicing in the destr… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics description: Na-maka-o-ka-hai went off toward Nuu-mea-lani rejoicing in the destruction of her hated enemy. Who acts: hai. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/5/96/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mytholo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/) / [How Pele Came to Hawaii](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/5/) / 96 # Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 96 Na-maka-o-ka-hai went off toward Nuu-mea-lani rejoicing in the destruction of her hated enemy. **Who acts:** hai · **What happens:** go off, hate, destroy · **To what, where:** Na, hated enemy 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 (hai), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66516:5:96 # text = Na-maka-o-ka-hai went off toward Nuu-mea-lani rejoicing in the destruction of her hated enemy. 1 Na Na PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ 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 X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 hai hai X FW Foreign=Yes 10 nsubj _ _ 10 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 off off ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 toward toward ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 13 Nuu Nuu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 mea mea NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 lani lani NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 rejoicing rejoicing NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 destruction destruction NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 hated hate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ _ 25 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go off** | past | hai | Na | | | | toward Nuu lani rejoicing in the destruction of Pele's hated enemy | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **hate** | participle | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **destroy** | | | Pele's hated enemy | | | | | nom destruction «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/5/95/) - next →: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/5/97/) - ↑ back to [How Pele Came to Hawaii](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/5/)