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title: “Aloha olua [Friendship to you also]!” was the reply. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: “Aloha olua [Friendship to you also]!” was the reply. Who acts: Aloha olua. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 23

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“Aloha olua \[Friendship to you also\]!” was the reply.

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**Who acts:** Aloha olua · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** reply

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aloha olua), 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:pg66516:7:23
# text = “Aloha olua [Friendship to you also]!” was the reply.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Aloha	Aloha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	olua	olua	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Aloha olua | the reply |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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