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title: The spirits of the dragons went into other bodies and leaped upon Hi… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The spirits of the dragons went into other bodies and leaped upon Hiiaka roaring, and biting and tearing her body. Who acts: spirits, Hiiaka. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 118

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The spirits of the dragons went into other bodies and leaped upon Hiiaka roaring, and biting and tearing her body.

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**Who acts:** spirits, Hiiaka · **What happens:** go, leap, roar, bite, tear · **To what, where:** other bodies, body

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirits, Hiiaka), 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:pg66516:20:118
# text = The spirits of the dragons went into other bodies and leaped upon Hiiaka roaring, and biting and tearing her body.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
12	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	biting	bite	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	tearing	tear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the spirits of the dragons |  |  | other bodies |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into body=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **leap** | participle | the spirits of the dragons *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **roar** | gerund | Hiiaka |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 4 | **bite** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **tear** | gerund |  | Hiiaka's body |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location body=Theme |

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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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