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title: Isaac Davis and John Young took charge of this portion of battle arr… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Isaac Davis and John Young took charge of this portion of battle array. Who acts: Isaac. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 70

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Isaac Davis and John Young took charge of this portion of battle array.

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**Who acts:** Isaac · **What happens:** take, charge · **To what, where:** charge, portion

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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 (Isaac), 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:pg66357:17:70
# text = Isaac Davis and John Young took charge of this portion of battle array.
1	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Davis	Davis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	Young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	array	array	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	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 | **take** | past | Isaac and John | charge of this portion of battle array |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme |
| 2 | **charge** |  |  | this portion of battle array |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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