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title: The Maui army crowded up toward the steep sides of the mountain as i… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The Maui army crowded up toward the steep sides of the mountain as if to avoid the scene of the battle of the preceding day. Who acts: Maui army. 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 221

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The Maui army crowded up toward the steep sides of the mountain as if to avoid the scene of the battle of the preceding day.

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**Who acts:** Maui army · **What happens:** crowd up, avoid, precede, battle · **To what, where:** steep sides, scene, preceding day

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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 (Maui army), 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:pg66357:14:221
# text = The Maui army crowded up toward the steep sides of the mountain as if to avoid the scene of the battle of the preceding day.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	crowded	crowd	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	preceding	precede	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crowd up** | past | the Maui army |  |  | the steep sides of the mountain |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme toward side=Destination |
| 2 | **avoid** | to-infinitive | the Maui army *not said here* | the scene of the battle of the preceding day |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent scene=Location |
| 3 | **precede** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **battle** |  |  | the preceding day |  |  |  |  | nom battle «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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