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title: Two other valiant chiefs side by side fought their way through their… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Two other valiant chiefs side by side fought their way through their enemies and escaped. Who acts: chiefs side. 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 203

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Two other valiant chiefs side by side fought their way through their enemies and escaped.

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**Who acts:** chiefs side · **What happens:** fight, escape · **To what, where:** way, enemies

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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 (chiefs side), 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:pg66357:14:203
# text = Two other valiant chiefs side by side fought their way through their enemies and escaped.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past | chiefs side by side | men's way |  | men's enemies |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **escape** | past | chiefs side by side *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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