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title: It was claimed that the hog-man could change himself into this fish… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: It was claimed that the hog-man could change himself into this fish as easily as into a hog. Who acts: hog man. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 10

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It was claimed that the hog-man could change himself into this fish as easily as into a hog.

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**Who acts:** hog man · **What happens:** claim, change · **To what, where:** fish, man, hog · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hog man), 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:pg66516:11:10
# text = It was claimed that the hog-man could change himself into this fish as easily as into a hog.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	claimed	claim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	hog	hog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hog	hog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **claim** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | fish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | could | the hog man | man |  | a hog |  | into this fish *result*; easily *property* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into fish=Result |

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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 Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (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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