---
title: Still up the loose sand the Alapa warriors struggled, putting to dea… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Still up the loose sand the Alapa warriors struggled, putting to death every foe, as they took possession of one hill after another, while their comrades forced the Oahu warriors back through the winding sand valleys. Who acts: Alapa warriors, foes, comrades. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legen
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/14/185/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Historical Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/) / [The Alapa Regiment](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/14/) / 185

# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 185

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Still up the loose sand the Alapa warriors struggled, putting to death every foe, as they took possession of one hill after another, while their comrades forced the Oahu warriors back through the winding sand valleys.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Alapa warriors, foes, comrades · **What happens:** struggle, put, take, force, possess · **To what, where:** foe, possession, Oahu warriors, sand valleys, one hill

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Alapa warriors, foes, comrades), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:14:185
# text = Still up the loose sand the Alapa warriors struggled, putting to death every foe, as they took possession of one hill after another, while their comrades forced the Oahu warriors back through the winding sand valleys.
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Alapa	Alapa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	struggled	struggle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	forced	force	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
34	back	back	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
35	through	through	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	winding	winding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **struggle** | past | the Alapa warriors |  |  |  | still |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **put** | gerund | the Alapa warriors *not said here* | every foe |  |  |  | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent foe=Goal |
| 3 | **take** | past | foes *= foe* | possession of one hill |  |  | after another |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme |
| 4 | **force** | past | foes's comrades | the Oahu warriors |  | the sand valleys |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Recipient |
| 5 | **possess** |  |  | one hill |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 184](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/14/184/)
- next →: [sentence 186](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/14/186/)
- ↑ back to [The Alapa Regiment](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/14/)