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title: He said to the birds: “If I go into the stomach of this woman do not… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He said to the birds: “If I go into the stomach of this woman do not laugh until I have gone through her, and come out again at her mouth; then you can laugh at me.” Who acts: Maui, birds. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui Seeking Immortality, with its dependency 
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 30

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He said to the birds: “If I go into the stomach of this woman do not laugh until I have gone through her, and come out again at her mouth; then you can laugh at me.”

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**Who acts:** Maui, birds · **What happens:** say, go, not laugh, come out, laugh · **To what, where:** birds, stomach, mouth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui Seeking Immortality. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maui, birds), 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:pg66357:3:30
# text = He said to the birds: “If I go into the stomach of this woman do not laugh until I have gone through her, and come out again at her mouth; then you can laugh at me.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
20	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
29	out	out	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	again	again	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Maui |  | the birds |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bird=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | Maui |  |  | the stomach of this woman |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into stomach=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **not** **laugh** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Maui |  |  |  |  | through woman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through she=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **come out** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | woman's mouth | again | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **laugh** *in a quote* | can | the birds *= bird* |  |  |  | then | at Maui | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (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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