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title: He was too heavily burdened with camp equipage and suffering men for… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He was too heavily burdened with camp equipage and suffering men for immediate fight. 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 238

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He was too heavily burdened with camp equipage and suffering men for immediate fight.

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**What happens:** burden, suffer · **To what, where:** attack, men

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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: 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:pg66357:14:238
# text = He was too heavily burdened with camp equipage and suffering men for immediate fight.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	burdened	burden	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	camp	camp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	equipage	equipage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	suffering	suffer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
11	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	immediate	immediate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burden** | past · passive |  | attack |  |  |  | with camp equipage; heavily *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with equipage=Theme |
| 2 | **suffer** | gerund |  | men |  |  |  | for immediate fight | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus for fight=Attribute |

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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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