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title: Wave upon wave of men from Maui beat against the eight, but each tim… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Wave upon wave of men from Maui beat against the eight, but each time the wave was shattered and scattered and destroyed. Who acts: you, men. 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 43

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Wave upon wave of men from Maui beat against the eight, but each time the wave was shattered and scattered and destroyed.

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**Who acts:** you, men · **What happens:** wave, beat, shatter, scatter, destroy · **To what, where:** wave

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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 (you, 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:pg66357:16:43
# text = Wave upon wave of men from Maui beat against the eight, but each time the wave was shattered and scattered and destroyed.
1	Wave	wave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	against	against	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	shattered	shatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wave** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **beat** | present | men from Maui |  |  | wave |  | against the eight | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon wave=Location |
| 3 | **shatter** | past · passive |  | the wave |  |  | time |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **scatter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **destroy** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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