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title: They wrestled and fought with their companions and listened to the t… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: They wrestled and fought with their companions and listened to the tales of the sea rovers of the Pacific. Who acts: boys, sea rovers. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 12

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They wrestled and fought with their companions and listened to the tales of the sea rovers of the Pacific.

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**Who acts:** boys, sea rovers · **What happens:** wrestle, fight, listen, tell · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, sea rovers), 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:pg66357:9:12
# text = They wrestled and fought with their companions and listened to the tales of the sea rovers of the Pacific.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wrestled	wrestle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	rovers	rover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **wrestle** | past | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fight** | past | boys *= boy* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with boys's companions | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with companion=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **listen** | past | boys *= boy* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the tales of the sea rovers of the Pacific | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to tale=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** |  | the sea rovers of the Pacific |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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