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title: They stopped and found two persons without bones—the bodies were fle… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: They stopped and found two persons without bones—the bodies were flesh, soft and yielding, yet of human form. Who acts: girls, bodies. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 39

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They stopped and found two persons without bones—the bodies were flesh, soft and yielding, yet of human form.

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**Who acts:** girls, bodies · **What happens:** stop, find, be, yield · **To what, where:** two persons, flesh

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, bodies), 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:pg66516:19:39
# text = They stopped and found two persons without bones—the bodies were flesh, soft and yielding, yet of human form.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	yielding	yield	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | girls *= girl* |  |  |  |  | human form *parataxis* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **find** | past | girls *= girl* *not said here* | two persons |  |  |  | without bones | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the bodies | flesh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **yield** | gerund | the bodies *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «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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