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title: The decimation of the Hawaiian race began in these inter-island wars… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The decimation of the Hawaiian race began in these inter-island wars before the coming of the white race. Who acts: decimation. 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 5

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The decimation of the Hawaiian race began in these inter-island wars before the coming of the white race.

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**Who acts:** decimation · **What happens:** begin, come, decimate · **To what, where:** island wars, Hawaiian race

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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 (decimation), 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:pg66357:14:5
# text = The decimation of the Hawaiian race began in these inter-island wars before the coming of the white race.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	decimation	decimation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
10	inter	inter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the decimation of the Hawaiian race |  |  | this island wars |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | the decimation of the Hawaiian race *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the white race | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of race=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **decimate** |  |  | the Hawaiian race |  |  |  |  | nom decimation «act 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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