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title: At last the guardian of the war god, wounded and bleeding, fought, s… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: At last the guardian of the war god, wounded and bleeding, fought, seated upon a block of lava. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 81

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At last the guardian of the war god, wounded and bleeding, fought, seated upon a block of lava.

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**What happens:** bleed, fight, seat · **To what, where:** last guardian

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66357:19:81
# text = At last the guardian of the war god, wounded and bleeding, fought, seated upon a block of lava.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	guardian	guardian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	bleeding	bleed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	block	block	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bleed** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 2 | **fight** | past |  |  |  | the last guardian of the war god |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | upon a block of lava | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |

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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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