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title: His strength was gone, and hands were outstretched to seize him and… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: His strength was gone, and hands were outstretched to seize him and carry him as a living sacrifice to the nearest heiau. Who acts: strength. 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 27

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His strength was gone, and hands were outstretched to seize him and carry him as a living sacrifice to the nearest heiau.

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**Who acts:** strength · **What happens:** be, outstretch, seize, carry · **To what, where:** hands, Heavy, nearest heiau

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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 (strength), 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:pg66357:14:27
# text = His strength was gone, and hands were outstretched to seize him and carry him as a living sacrifice to the nearest heiau.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	outstretched	outstretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	heiau	heiau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Heavy's strength |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **outstretch** | past · passive |  | hands |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seize** | to-infinitive |  | Heavy |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **carry** | infinitive |  | Heavy |  | the nearest heiau |  | as a living sacrifice | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to heiau=Destination |

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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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