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title: She checked it as it turned to either side and tried to dash away in… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: She checked it as it turned to either side and tried to dash away into the forest. Who acts: Hiiaka, ghost. 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 28

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She checked it as it turned to either side and tried to dash away into the forest.

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**Who acts:** Hiiaka, ghost · **What happens:** check, turn, try, dash away · **To what, where:** ghost, side, forest

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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, ghost), 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:pg66516:18:28
# text = She checked it as it turned to either side and tried to dash away into the forest.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	checked	check	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc:preconj	_	_
9	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	dash	dash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | past | Hiiaka | ghost |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | past | ghost |  |  | side |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to side=Trajectory |
| 3 | **try** | past | ghost *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **dash away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | ghost *not said here* |  |  | the forest |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into forest=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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