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title: He watched the paths through the forest, hoping to catch strangers,… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: He watched the paths through the forest, hoping to catch strangers, robbing them and sometimes devouring them. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 26

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He watched the paths through the forest, hoping to catch strangers, robbing them and sometimes devouring them.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** watch, hope, catch, rob, devour · **To what, where:** paths, forest, strangers

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg66516:16:26
# text = He watched the paths through the forest, hoping to catch strangers, robbing them and sometimes devouring them.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	robbing	rob	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
18	devouring	devour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past | man | the paths |  | the forest |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme |
| 2 | **hope** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **catch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | strangers |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme |
| 4 | **rob** | gerund | man *not said here* | strangers *= stranger* |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Source |
| 5 | **devour** | gerund | man *not said here* | strangers *= stranger* |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 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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