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title: He was sorry for her, remembering that it was by the aid of dragon p… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He was sorry for her, remembering that it was by the aid of dragon powers he had gone into the heavens and from the deep pit of the skies secured the water of life. Who acts: house, body, remembering. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Water of Life [1], with its de
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life \[1\], sentence 182

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He was sorry for her, remembering that it was by the aid of dragon powers he had gone into the heavens and from the deep pit of the skies secured the water of life.

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**Who acts:** house, body, remembering · **What happens:** be, remember, go, secure · **To what, where:** dragon powers, heavens, water · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (house, body, remembering), 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:pg66357:4:182
# text = He was sorry for her, remembering that it was by the aid of dragon powers he had gone into the heavens and from the deep pit of the skies secured the water of life.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	remembering	remember	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	csubj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	skies	sky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	secured	secure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | house |  |  |  |  | for Dragon; sorry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **remember** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | body |  |  |  |  | by the aid and the deep pit of the skies; of dragon powers; the deep pit of the skies *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | past · perfect | house | dragon powers *not said here* |  | the heavens |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **secure** | past | remembering | the water of life |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition water=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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