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title: Kahekili evidently suffered almost as severely as the invaders, for… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Kahekili evidently suffered almost as severely as the invaders, for there was scarcely any attempt at pursuit. Who acts: Kahekili, attempt. 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 233

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Kahekili evidently suffered almost as severely as the invaders, for there was scarcely any attempt at pursuit.

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**Who acts:** Kahekili, attempt · **What happens:** suffer, be

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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 (Kahekili, attempt), 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:pg66357:14:233
# text = Kahekili evidently suffered almost as severely as the invaders, for there was scarcely any attempt at pursuit.
1	Kahekili	Kahekili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	severely	severely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	invaders	invader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffer** | past | Kahekili |  |  |  |  | as the invaders; evidently, severely *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **be** | past | any attempt at pursuit |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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