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title: The brave warriors massed their strength and expected to override al… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The brave warriors massed their strength and expected to override all opposition. Who acts: brave warriors. 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 181

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The brave warriors massed their strength and expected to override all opposition.

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**Who acts:** brave warriors · **What happens:** mass, expect, override · **To what, where:** strength, opposition

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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 (brave warriors), 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:pg66357:14:181
# text = The brave warriors massed their strength and expected to override all opposition.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	massed	mass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	override	override	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mass** | past | the brave warriors | contests's strength |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent strength=Theme |
| 2 | **expect** | past | the brave warriors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **override** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the brave warriors *not said here* | all opposition |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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