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title: The water of life runs, life is coming, Open with trembling, to let… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The water of life runs, life is coming, Open with trembling, to let the spirit in, A noise rumbling, The sound of Ku. Who acts: water, life, noise. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 172

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The water of life runs, life is coming, Open with trembling, to let the spirit in, A noise rumbling, The sound of Ku.

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**Who acts:** water, life, noise · **What happens:** run, come, let in, rumble · **To what, where:** spirit, sound

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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 (water, life, noise), 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:pg66516:20:172
# text = The water of life runs, life is coming, Open with trembling, to let the spirit in, A noise rumbling, The sound of Ku.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	trembling	trembling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	rumbling	rumble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Ku	Ku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | the water of life |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | present · progressive | life |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **let in** | to-infinitive | the water of life *not said here* | the spirit |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme |
| 4 | **rumble** | gerund | a noise | the sound of Ku |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=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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