--- title: There they swam around a stone known as Moku-ola (The-island-of-life). — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics description: There they swam around a stone known as Moku-ola (The-island-of-life). Who acts: Hawaiians. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, 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/pg66516/8/20/) [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/) / [Pele and the Chiefs of Puna](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/8/) / 20 # Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 20 There they swam around a stone known as Moku-ola (The-island-of-life). **Who acts:** Hawaiians · **What happens:** swim, know · **To what, where:** stone This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Chiefs of Puna. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hawaiians), 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:pg66516:8:20 # text = There they swam around a stone known as Moku-ola (The-island-of-life). 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 swam swim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 around around ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 Moku Moku PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ola ola NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swim** | past | Hawaiians *= hawaiian* | | | a stone; there | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around stone=Trajectory | | 2 | **know** | participle | | a stone *not said here* | | | | as Moku ola | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as ola=Attribute | 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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/8/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/8/21/) - ↑ back to [Pele and the Chiefs of Puna](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/8/)