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title: I will go and chase that spirit from place to place until it goes ba… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: I will go and chase that spirit from place to place until it goes back to the place where it left its house—the body supposed to be dead. Who acts: I, spirit. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 22

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I will go and chase that spirit from place to place until it goes back to the place where it left its house—the body supposed to be dead.

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**Who acts:** I, spirit · **What happens:** go, chase, go back, leave, suppose, be · **To what, where:** body, spirit, place, house

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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 (I, spirit), 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:pg66516:18:22
# text = I will go and chase that spirit from place to place until it goes back to the place where it left its house—the body supposed to be dead.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	chase	chase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
27	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
30	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | future | I | the body |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **chase** | infinitive | I *not said here* | that spirit |  | place to place |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme from place=Trajectory |
| 3 | **go back** | present | spirit |  |  |  |  | to the place *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result |
| 4 | **leave** | past | spirit | spirit's house |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 5 | **suppose** | participle |  | the body *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |

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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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