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title: Early one morning a part of the king’s army landed at Maalaea Bay, n… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Early one morning a part of the king’s army landed at Maalaea Bay, near the spot where they had been defeated. Who acts: part. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 143

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Early one morning a part of the king’s army landed at Maalaea Bay, near the spot where they had been defeated.

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**Who acts:** part · **What happens:** land, defeat · **To what, where:** Maalaea Bay, parts

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (part), 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:pg66357:14:143
# text = Early one morning a part of the king’s army landed at Maalaea Bay, near the spot where they had been defeated.
1	Early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Maalaea	Maalaea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	near	near	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | past | a part of the king's army |  |  | Maalaea Bay | morning | near the spot | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **defeat** | past · perfect · passive |  | parts *= part* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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