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title: But in this fight the opposing parties combined the rattle of firear… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: But in this fight the opposing parties combined the rattle of firearms and the roar of small cannon with the usual war of words. Who acts: opposing parties, firearms, small cannon, words. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun, with its dependency tree and
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 76

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But in this fight the opposing parties combined the rattle of firearms and the roar of small cannon with the usual war of words.

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**Who acts:** opposing parties, firearms, small cannon, words · **What happens:** oppose, combine, rattle, roar, war · **To what, where:** rattle, fight

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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 (opposing parties, firearms, small cannon, words), 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:pg66357:17:76
# text = But in this fight the opposing parties combined the rattle of firearms and the roar of small cannon with the usual war of words.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	opposing	oppose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	combined	combine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rattle	rattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	firearms	firearm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	cannon	cannon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oppose** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **combine** | past | the opposing parties | the rattle of firearms and the roar of small cannon with the usual war of words |  | this fight |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rattle=Patient |
| 3 | **rattle** |  | firearms and the roar of small cannon with the usual war of words |  |  |  |  |  | nom rattle «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **roar** |  | small cannon with the usual war of words |  |  |  |  |  | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **war** |  | words |  |  |  |  |  | nom war «act 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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