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title: He leaped through the mouth of the enchanted one and entered her sto… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He leaped through the mouth of the enchanted one and entered her stomach, weapon in hand, to take out her heart, the vital principle which he knew had its home somewhere within her being. Who acts: Maui, vital principle. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui Seeking I
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 42

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He leaped through the mouth of the enchanted one and entered her stomach, weapon in hand, to take out her heart, the vital principle which he knew had its home somewhere within her being.

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**Who acts:** Maui, vital principle · **What happens:** leap, enchant, enter, take out, know, have · **To what, where:** mouth, stomach, heart, vital principle, home

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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, vital principle), 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:pg66357:3:42
# text = He leaped through the mouth of the enchanted one and entered her stomach, weapon in hand, to take out her heart, the vital principle which he knew had its home somewhere within her being.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	leaped	leap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	weapon	weapon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	vital	vital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	principle	principle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obj	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	31	advmod	_	_
35	within	within	ADP	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | past | Maui |  |  | the mouth of the enchanted one |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through mouth=Trajectory |
| 2 | **enchant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **enter** | past | Maui *not said here* | house's stomach |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stomach=Destination |
| 4 | **take out** | to-infinitive |  | house's heart |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme |
| 5 | **know** | past | Maui | the vital principle |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 6 | **have** | past | the vital principle | principle's home |  |  |  | somewhere *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient |

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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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