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title: In the confusion attendant upon the death of this great chief the bo… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In the confusion attendant upon the death of this great chief the bow-legged warrior escaped to his friends and soon all the little company were beyond pursuit. Who acts: legged warrior, friends, great chief. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu, with it
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 63

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In the confusion attendant upon the death of this great chief the bow-legged warrior escaped to his friends and soon all the little company were beyond pursuit.

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**Who acts:** legged warrior, friends, great chief · **What happens:** escape, be, die · **To what, where:** great chief, pursuit, confusion attendant

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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 (legged warrior, friends, great chief), 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:pg66357:16:63
# text = In the confusion attendant upon the death of this great chief the bow-legged warrior escaped to his friends and soon all the little company were beyond pursuit.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	attendant	attendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	legged	legged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
27	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl	_	_
28	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escape** | past | the legged warrior | this great chief *not said here* |  |  |  | to captive's friends and all little company | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chief=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **be** | past | captive's friends and all little company *not said here* |  |  | pursuit |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beyond pursuit=Location |
| 4 | **die** |  | this great chief |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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