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title: The girls saw the strangers and with hearts full of hospitality crie… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The girls saw the strangers and with hearts full of hospitality cried: “O women strangers, stop at our house and eat. Who acts: girls, hearts. 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 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 4

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The girls saw the strangers and with hearts full of hospitality cried: “O women strangers, stop at our house and eat.

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**Who acts:** girls, hearts · **What happens:** see, cry, stop, eat · **To what, where:** strangers, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (girls, hearts), 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:pg66516:18:4
# text = The girls saw the strangers and with hearts full of hospitality cried: “O women strangers, stop at our house and eat.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	17	case	_	_
16	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	compound	_	_
17	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the girls | the strangers |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | hearts |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | our house |  | of women strangers | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location |
| 4 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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