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title: The conflict was hand to hand, and in that respect was favourable to… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The conflict was hand to hand, and in that respect was favourable to the eight men well skilled in the use of spear and javelin. Who acts: conflict. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 38

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The conflict was hand to hand, and in that respect was favourable to the eight men well skilled in the use of spear and javelin.

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**Who acts:** conflict · **What happens:** be, hand, skill, use · **To what, where:** hand, respect, eight men, use, spear

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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 (conflict), 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:pg66357:16:38
# text = The conflict was hand to hand, and in that respect was favourable to the eight men well skilled in the use of spear and javelin.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	hand	hand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	favourable	favourable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	skilled	skill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	javelin	javelin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the conflict | hand |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hand** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the conflict *not said here* |  |  | that respect |  | to the eight men; favourable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **skill** | participle |  | the eight men *not said here* |  | the use of spear and javelin |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **use** |  |  | spear and javelin |  |  |  |  | nom use «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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