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title: Hiiaka washed the body in the sea and then turned to look for the gh… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Hiiaka washed the body in the sea and then turned to look for the ghost, but it was running away as if carried by a whirlwind. Who acts: Hiiaka, face. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 42

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Hiiaka washed the body in the sea and then turned to look for the ghost, but it was running away as if carried by a whirlwind.

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**Who acts:** Hiiaka, face · **What happens:** wash, turn, look, run away, carry · **To what, where:** body, sea

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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, face), 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:pg66516:18:42
# text = Hiiaka washed the body in the sea and then turned to look for the ghost, but it was running away as if carried by a whirlwind.
1	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	washed	wash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | past | Hiiaka | the body |  | the sea |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient |
| 2 | **turn** | past | Hiiaka *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | Hiiaka *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the ghost | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for ghost=Theme |
| 4 | **run away** | past · progressive | face |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **carry** | participle | face *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a whirlwind | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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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