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title: The fierce Malay tribes descended upon them and scattered them in al… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The fierce Malay tribes descended upon them and scattered them in all directions over the seas. Who acts: fierce Malay tribes. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 41

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The fierce Malay tribes descended upon them and scattered them in all directions over the seas.

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**Who acts:** fierce Malay tribes · **What happens:** descend, scatter · **To what, where:** fierce Malay tribes, Polynesians, directions

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Home of the Polynesians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fierce Malay tribes), 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:pg66357:6:41
# text = The fierce Malay tribes descended upon them and scattered them in all directions over the seas.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Malay	malay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	descended	descend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
9	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **descend** | participle |  | the fierce Malay tribes *not said here* |  |  |  | upon tribes *= tribe* | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **scatter** | past | the fierce Malay tribes | Polynesians *= polynesian* |  | all directions |  | over the seas | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in direction=Destination |

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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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