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title: The swift-beating waters drove your father on to the reef of coral a… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The swift-beating waters drove your father on to the reef of coral and there his body lies. Who acts: beating waters, body. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 20

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The swift-beating waters drove your father on to the reef of coral and there his body lies.

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**Who acts:** beating waters, body · **What happens:** drive, lie · **To what, where:** father, reef

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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 (beating waters, body), 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:pg66516:18:20
# text = The swift-beating waters drove your father on to the reef of coral and there his body lies.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	beating	beating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	reef	reef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	coral	coral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | past | the beating waters | your father |  | the reef of coral |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent father=Theme on reef=Destination |
| 2 | **lie** | present | water's body |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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