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title: The others were probably all killed in the destructive battles which… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The others were probably all killed in the destructive battles which soon followed. 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 67

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The others were probably all killed in the destructive battles which soon followed.

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**What happens:** kill, follow · **To what, where:** others, destructive battles

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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: 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:pg66357:16:67
# text = The others were probably all killed in the destructive battles which soon followed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
4	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	destructive	destructive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past · passive |  | the others |  | the destructive battles |  | all, probably *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | past |  | the destructive battles |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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