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title: This battle of the Alapa regiment was unlike the ordinary contests. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: This battle of the Alapa regiment was unlike the ordinary contests. Who acts: battle. 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 180

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This battle of the Alapa regiment was unlike the ordinary contests.

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**Who acts:** battle · **What happens:** be, battle · **To what, where:** Alapa regiment

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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 (battle), 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:pg66357:14:180
# text = This battle of the Alapa regiment was unlike the ordinary contests.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Alapa	Alapa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	regiment	regiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	contests	contest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this battle of the Alapa regiment |  |  |  |  | unlike the ordinary contests | tree rules |
| 2 | **battle** |  |  | the Alapa regiment |  |  |  |  | nom battle «act 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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