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title: This dragon was named Pii-ka-lalau, or Pii, the one dwelling at Ka-l… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: This dragon was named Pii-ka-lalau, or Pii, the one dwelling at Ka-lalau. Who acts: Pii, one. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 7

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This dragon was named Pii-ka-lalau, or Pii, the one dwelling at Ka-lalau.

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**Who acts:** Pii, one · **What happens:** name, one, dwell · **To what, where:** dragon, Ka lalau

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Owl Ghost-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pii, one), 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:pg66516:6:7
# text = This dragon was named Pii-ka-lalau, or Pii, the one dwelling at Ka-lalau.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	Pii	Pii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	ka	ka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	lalau	lalau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	Pii	Pii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
16	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	lalau	lalau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | past · passive |  | this dragon |  |  |  | Pii *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **one** |  | Pii |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dwell** | gerund | the one *not said here* |  |  | Ka lalau |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at lalau=Location |

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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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