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title: They walked on through the restful shadows of the forest and soon me… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: They walked on through the restful shadows of the forest and soon met a beautiful woman carrying a little black pig and a striped, angular fish. Who acts: demons, beautiful woman. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, with its de
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 15

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They walked on through the restful shadows of the forest and soon met a beautiful woman carrying a little black pig and a striped, angular fish.

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**Who acts:** demons, beautiful woman · **What happens:** walk on, meet, carry, shadow · **To what, where:** restful shadows, beautiful woman, little black pig, forest

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (demons, beautiful woman), 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:pg66516:17:15
# text = They walked on through the restful shadows of the forest and soon met a beautiful woman carrying a little black pig and a striped, angular fish.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	restful	restful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	striped	striped	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	angular	angular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk on** | past | demons *= demon* |  |  | the restful shadows of the forest |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through shadow=Trajectory |
| 2 | **meet** | past | demons *= demon* *not said here* | a beautiful woman |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | a beautiful woman *not said here* | a little black pig and a striped angular fish |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Theme |
| 4 | **shadow** |  |  | the forest |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=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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