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title: Ohia-lehua [5] is the native name for a tree which abounds in Puna,… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Ohia-lehua [5] is the native name for a tree which abounds in Puna, the region of the volcanic home of the goddess Pele. Who acts: Ohia lehua, tree. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Tree, sentence 1

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Ohia-lehua \[5\] is the native name for a tree which abounds in Puna, the region of the volcanic home of the goddess Pele.

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**Who acts:** Ohia lehua, tree · **What happens:** be, abound · **To what, where:** native name, Puna

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ohia lehua, tree), 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:pg66516:9:1
# text = Ohia-lehua [5] is the native name for a tree which abounds in Puna, the region of the volcanic home of the goddess Pele.
1	Ohia	Ohia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	lehua	lehua	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	abounds	abound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Puna	Puna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Ohia lehua | the native name |  |  |  | for a tree | tree rules |
| 2 | **abound** | present | a tree |  |  | Puna |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in puna=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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