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title: The death rate during these years of devastating warfare was beyond… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The death rate during these years of devastating warfare was beyond all calculation and thus came a tremendous decrease in the Hawaiian population. Who acts: death rate. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 84

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The death rate during these years of devastating warfare was beyond all calculation and thus came a tremendous decrease in the Hawaiian population.

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**Who acts:** death rate · **What happens:** be, come · **To what, where:** tremendous decrease, Hawaiian population

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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 (death rate), 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:pg66357:17:84
# text = The death rate during these years of devastating warfare was beyond all calculation and thus came a tremendous decrease in the Hawaiian population.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	during	during	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	devastating	devastating	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	warfare	warfare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	calculation	calculation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	decrease	decrease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the death rate during this years of devastating warfare |  |  |  |  | beyond all calculation | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | the death rate during this years of devastating warfare *not said here* | a tremendous decrease |  | the Hawaiian population |  | thus *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location decrease=Theme |

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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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