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title: She drove the ghost to the side of the body and ordered it to enter,… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: She drove the ghost to the side of the body and ordered it to enter, but the ghost thought that it would be a brighter and happier life if it could be free among the blossoming trees and fragrant ferns of the forest, so tried again to slip away from the house in which it had lived. Who acts: Hiiaka,
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 46

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She drove the ghost to the side of the body and ordered it to enter, but the ghost thought that it would be a brighter and happier life if it could be free among the blossoming trees and fragrant ferns of the forest, so tried again to slip away from the house in which it had lived.

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**Who acts:** Hiiaka, ghost · **What happens:** drive, order, enter, think, be, try · **To what, where:** ghost, side, house

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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:pg66516:18:46
# text = She drove the ghost to the side of the body and ordered it to enter, but the ghost thought that it would be a brighter and happier life if it could be free among the blossoming trees and fragrant ferns of the forest, so tried again to slip away from the house in which it had lived.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drove	drive	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	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	ccomp	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	happier	happy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	cop	_	_
34	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	_
35	among	among	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	blossoming	blossoming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	ferns	fern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	so	so	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
48	again	again	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
51	away	away	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
52	from	from	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	59	obl	_	_
57	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
58	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
59	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	54	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | past | Hiiaka | the ghost |  | the side of the body |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ghost=Theme to side=Trajectory |
| 2 | **order** | past | Hiiaka *not said here* |  | ghost |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **enter** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Hiiaka *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the ghost |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | would | ghost |  |  |  |  | happier life *conj*; bright *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | ghost |  |  |  |  | among the blossoming trees and fragrant ferns of the forest; free *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **try** | participle | the ghost *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 8 | **slip away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the ghost *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from the house; away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from house=Co-Patient |
| 9 | **live** | past · perfect | ghost |  |  | the house |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |

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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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