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title: They could see that dragon leaping from stone to stone, and swiftly… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: They could see that dragon leaping from stone to stone, and swiftly gliding up the steep precipice. Who acts: warriors, dragon. 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 clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 47

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They could see that dragon leaping from stone to stone, and swiftly gliding up the steep precipice.

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**Who acts:** warriors, dragon · **What happens:** see, leap, glide up · **To what, where:** dragon, stone, steep precipice

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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 (warriors, dragon), 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:pg66516:6:47
# text = They could see that dragon leaping from stone to stone, and swiftly gliding up the steep precipice.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	leaping	leap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	gliding	glide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	precipice	precipice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	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 | **see** | could | warriors *= warrior* | that dragon |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dragon=Stimulus |
| 2 | **leap** | gerund | that dragon *not said here* |  |  | stone |  | to stone | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to stone=Destination |
| 3 | **glide up** | gerund | warriors *= warrior* *not said here* | the steep precipice |  |  |  | swiftly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precipice=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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