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title: The Red Mouth Gun is the name given by the Hawaiians to the great ca… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The Red Mouth Gun is the name given by the Hawaiians to the great canoe battle fought off Waipio, Hawaii, in the year 1791, according to Fornander. Who acts: Red Mouth Gun, name. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 2

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The Red Mouth Gun is the name given by the Hawaiians to the great canoe battle fought off Waipio, Hawaii, in the year 1791, according to Fornander.

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**Who acts:** Red Mouth Gun, name · **What happens:** be, give, fight off, accord · **To what, where:** name, great canoe battle, Waipio

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Red Mouth Gun, name), 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:pg66357:17:2
# text = The Red Mouth Gun is the name given by the Hawaiians to the great canoe battle fought off Waipio, Hawaii, in the year 1791, according to Fornander.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
3	Mouth	Mouth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Gun	Gun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
8	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Hawaiians	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	obl:agent	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Waipio	Waipio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	1791	1791	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	case	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	Fornander	Fornander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Red Mouth Gun | the name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | participle |  | the name *not said here* | the great canoe battle |  |  | the Hawaiians *obl:agent* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to battle=Recipient |
| 3 | **fight off** | past | the name | Waipio |  |  | year | accord Fornander | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waipio=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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