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title: The debris of battle, the mutilated bodies of hundreds of warriors i… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The debris of battle, the mutilated bodies of hundreds of warriors inspired the great army to endeavour to avenge the recent defeat. Who acts: debris. 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 222

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The debris of battle, the mutilated bodies of hundreds of warriors inspired the great army to endeavour to avenge the recent defeat.

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**Who acts:** debris · **What happens:** mutilate, inspire, endeavour, avenge · **To what, where:** great army, recent defeat

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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 (debris), 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:pg66357:14:222
# text = The debris of battle, the mutilated bodies of hundreds of warriors inspired the great army to endeavour to avenge the recent defeat.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	debris	debris	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	mutilated	mutilate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	inspired	inspire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	endeavour	endeavour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	avenge	avenge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	defeat	defeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mutilate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **inspire** | past | the debris of battle and the mutilated bodies of hundreds of warriors | the great army |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus army=Experiencer |
| 3 | **endeavour** | to-infinitive | the debris of battle and the mutilated bodies of hundreds of warriors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **avenge** | to-infinitive | the debris of battle and the mutilated bodies of hundreds of warriors *not said here* | the recent defeat |  |  |  |  | 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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