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title: Then began one of the great legendary battles of ancient Hawaiian fo… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Then began one of the great legendary battles of ancient Hawaiian folk-lore. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 35

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Then began one of the great legendary battles of ancient Hawaiian folk-lore.

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**What happens:** begin, battle · **To what, where:** one, ancient Hawaiian folk lore

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho. 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:pg66516:20:35
# text = Then began one of the great legendary battles of ancient Hawaiian folk-lore.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	legendary	legendary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
11	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past |  | one of the great legendary battles of ancient Hawaiian folk lore |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality |
| 2 | **battle** |  |  | ancient Hawaiian folk lore |  |  |  |  | nom battle «act transitive»: of=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 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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