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title: Over the long desert isthmus sped the stalwart chiefs on up the divi… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Over the long desert isthmus sped the stalwart chiefs on up the divide between the two great mountains, until they saw the valley of the Wai-luku and the ocean waters of the eastern coast. Who acts: gods. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its d
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 162

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Over the long desert isthmus sped the stalwart chiefs on up the divide between the two great mountains, until they saw the valley of the Wai-luku and the ocean waters of the eastern coast.

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**Who acts:** gods · **What happens:** speed, see · **To what, where:** stalwart chiefs, long desert isthmus, valley

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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 (gods), 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:pg66357:14:162
# text = Over the long desert isthmus sped the stalwart chiefs on up the divide between the two great mountains, until they saw the valley of the Wai-luku and the ocean waters of the eastern coast.
1	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	isthmus	isthmus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	sped	speed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	stalwart	stalwart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	divide	divide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	between	between	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	Wai	Wai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	luku	luku	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speed** | past |  | the stalwart chiefs |  | the long desert isthmus |  | on the divide between the two great mountains | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent chief=Theme over isthmus=Initial\_Location on divide=Trajectory |
| 2 | **see** | past | gods *= god* | the valley |  |  |  | the ocean waters of the eastern coast *conj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer valley=Stimulus |

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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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