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title: Passing out of sight over the waters was breaking through the wall d… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Passing out of sight over the waters was breaking through the wall dividing one world from another. Who acts: Passing. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 56

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Passing out of sight over the waters was breaking through the wall dividing one world from another.

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**Who acts:** Passing · **What happens:** pass out, break, divide · **To what, where:** sight, waters, wall, one world

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Home of the Polynesians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Passing), 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:pg66357:6:56
# text = Passing out of sight over the waters was breaking through the wall dividing one world from another.
1	Passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	dividing	divide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **pass out** | gerund |  | sight |  | the waters |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 2 | **break** | past · progressive | Passing |  |  | the wall |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wall=Location |
| 3 | **divide** | gerund | Passing *not said here* | one world |  |  |  | from another | vn separate-23.1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent world=Patient from another=Co-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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