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title: A fierce storm drove the little squadron far north of the ordinary r… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: A fierce storm drove the little squadron far north of the ordinary route, and swept two of the ships out of the record of history. Who acts: fierce storm. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 14

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A fierce storm drove the little squadron far north of the ordinary route, and swept two of the ships out of the record of history.

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**Who acts:** fierce storm · **What happens:** drive, sweep, record · **To what, where:** little squadron, two, record, history

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fierce storm), 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:pg66357:11:14
# text = A fierce storm drove the little squadron far north of the ordinary route, and swept two of the ships out of the record of history.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	squadron	squadron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	north	north	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | past | a fierce storm | the little squadron |  |  |  | north *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme squadron=Trajectory |
| 2 | **sweep** | past | a fierce storm *not said here* | two of the ships |  | the record of history |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent two=Theme out record=Trajectory |
| 3 | **record** |  |  | history |  |  |  |  | nom record «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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 Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (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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