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title: Soon the larger bodies were separated into small bands, each one hop… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon the larger bodies were separated into small bands, each one hopelessly surrounded by picked 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 191

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Soon the larger bodies were separated into small bands, each one hopelessly surrounded by picked warriors.

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**What happens:** separate, surround, pick · **To what, where:** larger bodies, small bands, one

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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: 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:pg66357:14:191
# text = Soon the larger bodies were separated into small bands, each one hopelessly surrounded by picked warriors.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	hopelessly	hopelessly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **separate** | past · passive |  | the larger bodies |  |  |  | into small bands *goal*; soon *property* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme into band=Goal |
| 2 | **surround** | participle |  | each one *not said here* |  |  |  | picked warriors *obl:agent*; hopelessly *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pick** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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