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title: Then came the “Battle of the Sand-Hills” below Wailuku and the defea… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Then came the “Battle of the Sand-Hills” below Wailuku and the defeat of the forces of the king of Hawaii. 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 86

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Then came the “Battle of the Sand-Hills” below Wailuku and the defeat of the forces of the king of Hawaii.

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**What happens:** come, defeat · **To what, where:** Battle, forces

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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: 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:pg66357:13:86
# text = Then came the “Battle of the Sand-Hills” below Wailuku and the defeat of the forces of the king of Hawaii.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Battle	Battle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Sand	Sand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	below	below	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Wailuku	Wailuku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	defeat	defeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | the Battle of the Sand Hills below Wailuku and the defeat of the forces of the king of Hawaii |  |  | then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location battle=Theme |
| 2 | **defeat** |  |  | the forces of the king of Hawaii |  |  |  |  | nom defeat «event 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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