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title: It was one more instance of going into the jaws of death for the sak… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: It was one more instance of going into the jaws of death for the sake of loyal obedience. Who acts: opportunity, one more instance. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 46

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It was one more instance of going into the jaws of death for the sake of loyal obedience.

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**Who acts:** opportunity, one more instance · **What happens:** be, go · **To what, where:** one more instance, jaws

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (opportunity, one more instance), 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:pg66357:15:46
# text = It was one more instance of going into the jaws of death for the sake of loyal obedience.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	loyal	loyal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	obedience	obedience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | opportunity | one more instance |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | one more instance *not said here* |  |  | the jaws of death |  | for the sake of loyal obedience | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into jaw=Initial\_Location |

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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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