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title: With the insane inspiration of battle he made charge upon charge, as… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: With the insane inspiration of battle he made charge upon charge, as he pushed the confused mass of chiefs and people into an impetuous flight. Who acts: giant, you. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 35

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With the insane inspiration of battle he made charge upon charge, as he pushed the confused mass of chiefs and people into an impetuous flight.

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**Who acts:** giant, you · **What happens:** make, charge, push, inspire · **To what, where:** battle, charge, confused mass, impetuous flight

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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 (giant, you), 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:pg66357:14:35
# text = With the insane inspiration of battle he made charge upon charge, as he pushed the confused mass of chiefs and people into an impetuous flight.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	insane	insane	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	inspiration	inspiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	charge	charge	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	confused	confused	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	impetuous	impetuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | giant | battle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Product |
| 2 | **charge** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | charge |  | with the insane inspiration of battle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon charge=Trajectory |
| 3 | **push** | past | giant | the confused mass of chiefs and people |  | a impetuous flight |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mass=Theme into flight=Destination |
| 4 | **inspire** |  |  | battle |  |  |  |  | nom inspiration «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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