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title: Thus she told the ghost that she would give new life even as dew on… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus she told the ghost that she would give new life even as dew on a thirsty flower. Who acts: flower. 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 84

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Thus she told the ghost that she would give new life even as dew on a thirsty flower.

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**Who acts:** flower · **What happens:** tell, give · **To what, where:** ghost, new life, thirsty flower · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (flower), 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:pg66516:20:84
# text = Thus she told the ghost that she would give new life even as dew on a thirsty flower.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | flower | the ghost |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent ghost=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** | would | flower | new life |  | a thirsty flower |  | as dew | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Theme on flower=Asset |

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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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