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title: As he entered the door he received a heavy blow which smashed the bo… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: As he entered the door he received a heavy blow which smashed the bones of one shoulder and laid him prostrate. Who acts: Kau, heavy blow. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 14

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As he entered the door he received a heavy blow which smashed the bones of one shoulder and laid him prostrate.

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**Who acts:** Kau, heavy blow · **What happens:** enter, receive, smash, lay · **To what, where:** door, heavy blow, bones, Kau

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Owl Ghost-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kau, heavy blow), 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:pg66516:6:14
# text = As he entered the door he received a heavy blow which smashed the bones of one shoulder and laid him prostrate.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	smashed	smash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	prostrate	prostrate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | Kau | the door |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Destination |
| 2 | **receive** | past | Kau | a heavy blow |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme |
| 3 | **smash** | past | a heavy blow | the bones of one shoulder |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme |
| 4 | **lay** | past | a heavy blow *not said here* | Kau |  |  |  | prostrate *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result |

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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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