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title: “Into the valley of death rode the six hundred,” but this was not an… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “Into the valley of death rode the six hundred,” but this was not an impetuous torrent of six hundred mounted cavalry men sweeping through Russian ranks. Who acts: this, hundred mounted cavalry men. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu, with its dependen
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 35

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“Into the valley of death rode the six hundred,” but this was not an impetuous torrent of six hundred mounted cavalry men sweeping through Russian ranks.

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**Who acts:** this, hundred mounted cavalry men · **What happens:** ride, not be, mount, sweep · **To what, where:** six hundred, valley, impetuous torrent, Russian ranks

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, hundred mounted cavalry men), 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:pg66357:16:35
# text = “Into the valley of death rode the six hundred,” but this was not an impetuous torrent of six hundred mounted cavalry men sweeping through Russian ranks.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	_
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	impetuous	impetuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	torrent	torrent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	compound	_	_
22	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
23	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
24	cavalry	cavalry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
26	sweeping	sweep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	through	through	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	ranks	rank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** *in a quote* | past |  | the six hundred |  | the valley of death |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme into valley=Trajectory |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past | this | a impetuous torrent |  |  |  | of hundred mounted cavalry men | tree rules |
| 3 | **mount** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sweep** | gerund | hundred mounted cavalry men *not said here* |  |  | Russian ranks |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through rank=Trajectory |

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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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