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title: Suddenly their Maui foe disappeared, and in front and rear and on ev… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly their Maui foe disappeared, and in front and rear and on every side rose up hundreds of warriors from Oahu—strangers to the Alapa chiefs. Who acts: Maui foe. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 171

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Suddenly their Maui foe disappeared, and in front and rear and on every side rose up hundreds of warriors from Oahu—strangers to the Alapa chiefs.

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**Who acts:** Maui foe · **What happens:** disappear, rise up · **To what, where:** strangers, hundreds

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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 (Maui foe), 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:pg66357:14:171
# text = Suddenly their Maui foe disappeared, and in front and rear and on every side rose up hundreds of warriors from Oahu—strangers to the Alapa chiefs.
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	rear	rear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Alapa	Alapa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappear** | past | forces's Maui foe | strangers to the Alapa chiefs |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rise up** | past | forces's Maui foe *not said here* | hundreds of warriors |  |  |  | from Oahu; in front and every side | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient hundred=Extent in front=Attribute from oahu=Initial\_State |

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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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