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title: The spirit was wandering aimlessly from place to place with its cala… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The spirit was wandering aimlessly from place to place with its calabash thrown over its shoulder. Who acts: spirit. 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 25

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The spirit was wandering aimlessly from place to place with its calabash thrown over its shoulder.

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**Who acts:** spirit · **What happens:** wonder, throw · **To what, where:** place, calabash, shoulder

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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 (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:pg66516:18:25
# text = The spirit was wandering aimlessly from place to place with its calabash thrown over its shoulder.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	aimlessly	aimlessly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	calabash	calabash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past · progressive | the spirit |  |  | place to place with spirit's calabash |  | aimlessly *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **throw** | participle |  | spirit's calabash *not said here* |  | spirit's shoulder |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over shoulder=Destination |

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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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