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title: The banks of this stream had already been the scene of many a bloody… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The banks of this stream had already been the scene of many a bloody battle, hence the name Wai-luku—“Water of destruction.” Who acts: banks. 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 154

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The banks of this stream had already been the scene of many a bloody battle, hence the name Wai-luku—“Water of destruction.”

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**Who acts:** banks · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** scene

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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 (banks), 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:pg66357:14:154
# text = The banks of this stream had already been the scene of many a bloody battle, hence the name Wai-luku—“Water of destruction.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	already	already	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nsubj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	Wai	Wai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	luku	luku	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the banks of this stream |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | participle |  | the scene |  |  |  | of a bloody battle and the name; Water of destruction *parataxis* | 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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