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title: From every wind-raised hill the Oahu men hurled heavy stones upon th… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: From every wind-raised hill the Oahu men hurled heavy stones upon the plumed helmets beneath them, and thrust long spears into those who stormed the hillsides. Who acts: Oahu men. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 184

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From every wind-raised hill the Oahu men hurled heavy stones upon the plumed helmets beneath them, and thrust long spears into those who stormed the hillsides.

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**Who acts:** Oahu men · **What happens:** raise, hurl, plume, storm · **To what, where:** heavy stones, raised hill, hillsides

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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 (Oahu men), 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:pg66357:14:184
# text = From every wind-raised hill the Oahu men hurled heavy stones upon the plumed helmets beneath them, and thrust long spears into those who stormed the hillsides.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
3	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hurled	hurl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	plumed	plume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	helmets	helmet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
23	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	nmod	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	stormed	storm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	hillsides	hillside	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | wind *compound* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hurl** | past | the Oahu men | heavy stones |  | every raised hill |  | upon the plumed helmets beneath ranks; thrust spears into those *obl* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent stone=Theme from hill=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **plume** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **storm** | past |  | the hillsides |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | 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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