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title: Sometimes war gods—images of hideous and distorted features—were car… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes war gods—images of hideous and distorted features—were carried by priests and thrust into the faces of opponents. Who acts: priests. 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 179

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Sometimes war gods—images of hideous and distorted features—were carried by priests and thrust into the faces of opponents.

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**Who acts:** priests · **What happens:** carry, image · **To what, where:** war gods, faces, hideous features

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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 (priests), 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:pg66357:14:179
# text = Sometimes war gods—images of hideous and distorted features—were carried by priests and thrust into the faces of opponents.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
2	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	images	image	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	distorted	distorted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	opponents	opponent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past · passive | priests and thrust | war gods and images of hideous features |  | the faces of opponents |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **image** |  |  | hideous features |  |  |  |  | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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