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title: She saw him coming and wearily arose to give battle once more. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: She saw him coming and wearily arose to give battle once more. Who acts: Hiiaka, test. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 87

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She saw him coming and wearily arose to give battle once more.

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**Who acts:** Hiiaka, test · **What happens:** see, come, arise, give · **To what, where:** test, battle

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hiiaka, test), 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:pg66516:16:87
# text = She saw him coming and wearily arose to give battle once more.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	wearily	wearily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	advmod	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Hiiaka | test |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | test *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **arise** | past | Hiiaka *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wearily *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive | Hiiaka *not said here* | battle |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent battle=Recipient more=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 Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (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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