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title: There was a full day of savage fighting, marked by inhuman acts of a… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a full day of savage fighting, marked by inhuman acts of awful brutality. Who acts: full day, awful brutality. 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 228

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There was a full day of savage fighting, marked by inhuman acts of awful brutality.

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**Who acts:** full day, awful brutality · **What happens:** be, mark, act · **To what, where:** savage fighting

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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 (full day, awful brutality), 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:pg66357:14:228
# text = There was a full day of savage fighting, marked by inhuman acts of awful brutality.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	inhuman	inhuman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	acts	act	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	brutality	brutality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a full day of savage fighting |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **mark** | participle |  | savage fighting *not said here* |  |  |  | by inhuman acts of awful brutality | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent by act=Destination |
| 3 | **act** |  | awful brutality |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=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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