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title: The spirits of those who die on the other islands leap into the sea… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The spirits of those who die on the other islands leap into the sea and swim around the land from island to island until they reach Savaii. Who acts: spirits. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui Seeking Immortality, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 9

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The spirits of those who die on the other islands leap into the sea and swim around the land from island to island until they reach Savaii.

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**Who acts:** spirits · **What happens:** die, leap, swim, reach · **To what, where:** other islands, sea, land, Savaii

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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 (spirits), 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:pg66357:3:9
# text = The spirits of those who die on the other islands leap into the sea and swim around the land from island to island until they reach Savaii.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	nmod	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	leap	leap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	around	around	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	reach	reach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
27	Savaii	Savaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | present |  |  |  | the other islands |  | who *nsubj* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **leap** | present | the spirits of those |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sea=Destination |
| 3 | **swim** | present | the spirits of those *not said here* |  |  | the land |  | from island; to island | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to island=Destination |
| 4 | **reach** | present | spirits *= spirit* | Savaii |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent savaii=Theme |

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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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