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title: The Alapa regiment alone numbered about eight hundred of the finest… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The Alapa regiment alone numbered about eight hundred of the finest and bravest chiefs of the island of Hawaii. Who acts: Alapa regiment. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 84

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The Alapa regiment alone numbered about eight hundred of the finest and bravest chiefs of the island of Hawaii.

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**Who acts:** Alapa regiment · **What happens:** number · **To what, where:** eight hundred, Alapa regiment

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alapa regiment), 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:pg66357:13:84
# text = The Alapa regiment alone numbered about eight hundred of the finest and bravest chiefs of the island of Hawaii.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Alapa	Alapa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	regiment	regiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	numbered	number	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	compound	_	_
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	bravest	brave	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	conj	_	_
14	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **number** | participle | the Alapa regiment *not said here* | eight hundred of the finest chiefs of the island of Hawaii |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=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 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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