--- title: As the clouds of smoke crept over the sea the battle became, in the… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics description: As the clouds of smoke crept over the sea the battle became, in the view of the watchers, a fight between red mouth guns, and they shouted one to another the news of the progress of the conflict according to the predominance of flashing muskets and cannon. 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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 (clouds, battle, conflict, flashing muskets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66357:17:79 # text = As the clouds of smoke crept over the sea the battle became, in the view of the watchers, a fight between red mouth guns, and they shouted one to another the news of the progress of the conflict according to the predominance of flashing muskets and cannon. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 clouds cloud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 over over ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 view view NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 xcomp _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 watchers watcher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 23 between between ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 guns gun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 shouted shout VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 31 nmod _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 progress progress NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 conflict conflict NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 42 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 45 case _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 42 fixed _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 predominance predominance NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 flashing flashing NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 muskets musket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nmod _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 cannon cannon NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **creep** | past | the clouds of smoke | | | the sea | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Trajectory | | 2 | **become** | past | the battle | the view of the watchers and a fight between red mouth guns | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | clouds *= cloud* | the one news of the progress of the conflict accord the predominance of flashing muskets and cannon | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Topic | | 4 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **cloud** | | | smoke | | | | | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **view** | | | the watchers | | | | | nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **progress** | | the conflict accord the predominance of flashing muskets and cannon | | | | | | nom progress «act intransitive»: of=agent | | 8 | **predominate** | | flashing muskets and cannon | | | | | | nom predominance «state intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/17/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/17/80/) - ↑ back to [The Red Mouth Gun](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/17/)