--- title: He went to a place where green calabash vines were growing, took a c… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics description: He went to a place where green calabash vines were growing, took a calabash, shook it, broke it, opened it and found good food inside. Who acts: dog, green calabash vines. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Water of Life [1], with its dependency tree and the pragmat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/4/79/) [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/) / 79 # Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life \[1\], sentence 79 He went to a place where green calabash vines were growing, took a calabash, shook it, broke it, opened it and found good food inside. **Who acts:** dog, green calabash vines · **What happens:** go, grow, take, shake, break, open · **To what, where:** place, calabash, food, good food 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 (dog, green calabash vines), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66357:4:79 # text = He went to a place where green calabash vines were growing, took a calabash, shook it, broke it, opened it and found good food inside. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 11 advmod _ _ 7 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 calabash calabash NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 vines vine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 10 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 growing grow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 calabash calabash NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 27 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 inside inside ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | dog | | | a place | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **grow** | past · progressive | green calabash vines | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **take** | past | dog *not said here* | a calabash | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calabash=Theme | | 4 | **shake** | past | dog *not said here* | food | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **break** | past | dog *not said here* | food | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | | 6 | **open** | past | | food | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 7 | **find** | past | | good food | | | | inside *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/4/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/4/80/) - ↑ back to [The Water of Life \[1\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/4/)