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title: The champion wrestler from Matavia Bay very slowly walked into the a… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The champion wrestler from Matavia Bay very slowly walked into the arena, trying to appear utterly oblivious of his antagonist. Who acts: champion wrestler. 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 99

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The champion wrestler from Matavia Bay very slowly walked into the arena, trying to appear utterly oblivious of his antagonist.

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**Who acts:** champion wrestler · **What happens:** walk, try, appear · **To what, where:** arena

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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: who acts (champion wrestler), 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:pg66357:7:99
# text = The champion wrestler from Matavia Bay very slowly walked into the arena, trying to appear utterly oblivious of his antagonist.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	champion	champion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wrestler	wrestler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Matavia	Matavia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	arena	arena	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	utterly	utterly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	oblivious	oblivious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	antagonist	antagonist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | the champion wrestler from Matavia Bay |  |  |  |  | into the arena *result*; slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into arena=Result |
| 2 | **try** | gerund | the champion wrestler from Matavia Bay *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **appear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the champion wrestler from Matavia Bay *not said here* |  |  |  |  | oblivious *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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