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title: The Opelea hindered the storm waves by opposing his great body and b… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The Opelea hindered the storm waves by opposing his great body and breaking their force. Who acts: Opelea. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 70

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The Opelea hindered the storm waves by opposing his great body and breaking their force.

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**Who acts:** Opelea · **What happens:** hinder, oppose, break · **To what, where:** storm waves, great body, force

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Opelea), 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:pg66357:8:70
# text = The Opelea hindered the storm waves by opposing his great body and breaking their force.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Opelea	Opelea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hindered	hinder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	opposing	oppose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hinder** | past | the Opelea | the storm waves |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer wave=Eventuality |
| 2 | **oppose** | gerund | the Opelea *not said here* | Opelea's great body |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient |
| 3 | **break** | gerund | the Opelea *not said here* | waves's force |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer force=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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