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title: She saw the spirit of that man coming up from the beach with an ipu-… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: She saw the spirit of that man coming up from the beach with an ipu-holoholona (a-calabash-for-carrying fish-lines, etc.) in his hands. Who acts: Hiiaka, man, calabash. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, with its dependency tree an
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 16

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She saw the spirit of that man coming up from the beach with an ipu-holoholona (a-calabash-for-carrying fish-lines, etc.) in his hands.

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**Who acts:** Hiiaka, man, calabash · **What happens:** see, come up, carry · **To what, where:** spirit, beach, fish lines

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka Catching a Ghost. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hiiaka, man, calabash), 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:pg66516:18:16
# text = She saw the spirit of that man coming up from the beach with an ipu-holoholona (a-calabash-for-carrying fish-lines, etc.) in his hands.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	up	up	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	ipu	ipu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	holoholona	holoholona	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	calabash	calabash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	etc.	etc.	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Hiiaka | the spirit of that man |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spirit=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come up** | gerund | that man *not said here* |  |  | the beach with a ipu holoholona in man's hands |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from beach=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | a calabash and etc. *not said here* | fish lines |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme |

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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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