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title: The fleet of the invading army formed in battle array out in the dee… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The fleet of the invading army formed in battle array out in the deep waters off the Waipio coast. Who acts: fleet. 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 72

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The fleet of the invading army formed in battle array out in the deep waters off the Waipio coast.

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**Who acts:** fleet · **What happens:** invade, form, array out · **To what, where:** invading army, battle, deep waters

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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 (fleet), 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:pg66357:17:72
# text = The fleet of the invading army formed in battle array out in the deep waters off the Waipio coast.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	invading	invade	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	array	array	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Waipio	Waipio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invade** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** | participle |  | the invading army *not said here* |  | battle |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in battle=Location |
| 3 | **array out** | present | the fleet of the invading army |  |  | the deep waters off the Waipio coast |  |  | tree rules |

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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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