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title: “Moving back, and forth in the wind Softly moving in the quiet breez… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: “Moving back, and forth in the wind Softly moving in the quiet breeze Rocking by the side of the sea.” A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 1

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“Moving back, and forth in the wind Softly moving in the quiet breeze Rocking by the side of the sea.”

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**What happens:** move back, move, rock · **To what, where:** wind, quiet breeze

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66516:15:1
# text = “Moving back, and forth in the wind Softly moving in the quiet breeze Rocking by the side of the sea.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	Softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
11	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	Rocking	rock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move back** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  | the wind |  | forth, softly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in wind=Trajectory |
| 2 | **move** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  | the quiet breeze |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in breeze=Trajectory |
| 3 | **rock** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | by the side of the sea | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Location |

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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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