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title: Then came the whispered call to retreat, and the eight made a terrif… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Then came the whispered call to retreat, and the eight made a terrific onslaught against the circle of warriors surrounding them. Who acts: whispered call, eight, warriors. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 48

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Then came the whispered call to retreat, and the eight made a terrific onslaught against the circle of warriors surrounding them.

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**Who acts:** whispered call, eight, warriors · **What happens:** come, whisper, retreat, make, surround · **To what, where:** terrific onslaught, warriors

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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 (whispered call, eight, warriors), 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:pg66357:16:48
# text = Then came the whispered call to retreat, and the eight made a terrific onslaught against the circle of warriors surrounding them.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	retreat	retreat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	terrific	terrific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	onslaught	onslaught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	against	against	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	surrounding	surround	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the whispered call |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **retreat** | to-infinitive | the whispered call *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **make** | past | the eight | a terrific onslaught |  |  |  | against the circle of warriors | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset onslaught=Product |
| 5 | **surround** | gerund | warriors *not said here* | warriors *= warrior* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme |

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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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