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title: As Hiiaka rose to pass out of the door the ghost leaped and disappea… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: As Hiiaka rose to pass out of the door the ghost leaped and disappeared. Who acts: 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 36

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As Hiiaka rose to pass out of the door the ghost leaped and disappeared.

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**Who acts:** ghost · **What happens:** rise, pass out, leap, disappear · **To what, where:** door

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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 (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:pg66516:18:36
# text = As Hiiaka rose to pass out of the door the ghost leaped and disappeared.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	leaped	leap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as Hiiaka | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass out** | to-infinitive |  | the door |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent door=Theme |
| 3 | **leap** | past | the ghost | the door *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Trajectory |
| 4 | **disappear** | past | the ghost *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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