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title: As they entered this rough region the first serious show of force me… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: As they entered this rough region the first serious show of force met the exultant Hawaiians. Who acts: winds, force. 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 167

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As they entered this rough region the first serious show of force met the exultant Hawaiians.

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**Who acts:** winds, force · **What happens:** enter, meet · **To what, where:** rough region, exultant Hawaiians

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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 (winds, force), 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:pg66357:14:167
# text = As they entered this rough region the first serious show of force met the exultant Hawaiians.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
9	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	exultant	exultant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Hawaiians	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | winds *= wind* | this rough region |  |  |  | the first serious show *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **meet** | past | force | the exultant Hawaiians |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hawaiian=Co-Agent |

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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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