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title: Stepping sideways was my thought to see my family dwelling in this h… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Stepping sideways was my thought to see my family dwelling in this house—then journey on.” Who acts: Stepping, family. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 80

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Stepping sideways was my thought to see my family dwelling in this house—then journey on.”

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**Who acts:** Stepping, family · **What happens:** step, be, see, dwell · **To what, where:** sideways, thought, family, house

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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 (Stepping, family), 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:pg66516:17:80
# text = Stepping sideways was my thought to see my family dwelling in this house—then journey on.”
1	Stepping	step	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	csubj	_	_
2	sideways	sideway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step** | gerund |  | sideways |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location sideway=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Stepping | my thought |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss*; journey *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | my family |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer family=Stimulus |
| 4 | **dwell** | gerund | my family *not said here* |  |  | this house |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=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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