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title: Then followed match after match, sometimes interspersed with boxing. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Then followed match after match, sometimes interspersed with boxing. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 114

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Then followed match after match, sometimes interspersed with boxing.

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**What happens:** follow, intersperse · **To what, where:** match

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii. 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:pg66357:7:114
# text = Then followed match after match, sometimes interspersed with boxing.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	_
8	interspersed	intersperse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	boxing	boxing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past |  | match |  |  | after match; then |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Theme |
| 2 | **intersperse** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with boxing; sometimes *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with boxing=Co-Patient |

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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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