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title: The blazing tropical sun filled the struggling warriors with raging… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The blazing tropical sun filled the struggling warriors with raging thirst, and the waters of the Wai-luku were still nearly a mile away. Who acts: blazing tropical sun, waters. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 187

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The blazing tropical sun filled the struggling warriors with raging thirst, and the waters of the Wai-luku were still nearly a mile away.

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**Who acts:** blazing tropical sun, waters · **What happens:** blaze, fill, struggle, rage, be · **To what, where:** struggling warriors, thirst, mile

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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 (blazing tropical sun, waters), 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:pg66357:14:187
# text = The blazing tropical sun filled the struggling warriors with raging thirst, and the waters of the Wai-luku were still nearly a mile away.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	blazing	blaze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
3	tropical	tropical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	struggling	struggle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	amod	_	_
8	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	raging	rage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Wai	Wai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	luku	luku	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	dep	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blaze** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fill** | past | the blazing tropical sun | the struggling warriors |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent warrior=Patient |
| 3 | **struggle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rage** | gerund | the blazing tropical sun *not said here* | thirst |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location thirst=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past | the waters of the Wai | a mile |  |  | still | away, nearly *property* | 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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