---
title: Then he sent one to get the stick he had brought from the dragon pit… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he sent one to get the stick he had brought from the dragon pit which was near the sea. Who acts: boy, dragon pit. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Water of Life [1], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/4/17/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 Historical Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/) / [The Water of Life \[1\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/4/) / 17

# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life \[1\], sentence 17

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Then he sent one to get the stick he had brought from the dragon pit which was near the sea.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** boy, dragon pit · **What happens:** send, get, bring, be · **To what, where:** one, stick, dragon pit, sea

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Water of Life \[1\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, dragon pit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:4:17
# text = Then he sent one to get the stick he had brought from the dragon pit which was near the sea.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	near	near	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | boy | one |  |  | then |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | the stick |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stick=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bring** | past · perfect | boy | the stick *not said here* |  | the dragon pit |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent stick=Theme from pit=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | the dragon pit |  |  | the sea |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/4/16/)
- next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/4/18/)
- ↑ back to [The Water of Life \[1\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/4/)