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title: But some of the chiefs went out and instead of bringing the wounded… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: But some of the chiefs went out and instead of bringing the wounded man into the council took him and twisted the spear-point, pulling it back and forth, until he died. Who acts: some, council, man. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, wi
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 138

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But some of the chiefs went out and instead of bringing the wounded man into the council took him and twisted the spear-point, pulling it back and forth, until he died.

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**Who acts:** some, council, man · **What happens:** go out, bring, take, twist, pull, die · **To what, where:** wounded man, man, spear point, council

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some, council, man), 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:pg66357:18:138
# text = But some of the chiefs went out and instead of bringing the wounded man into the council took him and twisted the spear-point, pulling it back and forth, until he died.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	11	mark	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	twisted	twist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	back	back	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | some of the chiefs |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | gerund | some of the chiefs *not said here* |  | the wounded man |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination |
| 3 | **take** | past | the council |  | man |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 4 | **twist** | past | the council *not said here* | the spear point |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent point=Theme |
| 5 | **pull** | gerund | the council *not said here* | council |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **die** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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