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title: As human beings they would mingle with their fellows and go out in t… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: As human beings they would mingle with their fellows and go out in the sea, bathing and surf-riding, but when they went into the water they would dive under, assume their shark form, and catch some one of the bathers. Who acts: beings. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 7

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As human beings they would mingle with their fellows and go out in the sea, bathing and surf-riding, but when they went into the water they would dive under, assume their shark form, and catch some one of the bathers.

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**Who acts:** beings · **What happens:** mingle, go out, go, dive under, assume, catch · **To what, where:** sea, water, shark form, one

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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 (beings), 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:pg66516:19:7
# text = As human beings they would mingle with their fellows and go out in the sea, bathing and surf-riding, but when they went into the water they would dive under, assume their shark form, and catch some one of the bathers.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	mingle	mingle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	bathing	bathing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	surf	surf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	dive	dive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	parataxis	_	_
33	under	under	ADP	IN	_	32	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	assume	assume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
42	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	43	det	_	_
43	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	obj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	bathers	bather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mingle** | would | beings *= being* |  |  |  |  | as human beings; with beings's fellows | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with fellow=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **go out** | infinitive | beings *= being* *not said here* |  |  | the sea and bathing and surf riding |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past | beings *= being* |  |  | the water |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **dive under** | would | beings *= being* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **assume** | infinitive | beings *= being* *not said here* | beings's shark form |  |  |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 6 | **catch** | infinitive | beings *= being* *not said here* | some one of the bathers |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 7 | **form** |  | beings *= being* |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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