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title: The slaughter of the reptile horde was quickly accomplished and Hiia… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The slaughter of the reptile horde was quickly accomplished and Hiiaka soon saw the body of her enemy the dragon-god trampled underfoot. Who acts: Hiiaka, dragon god. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 59

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The slaughter of the reptile horde was quickly accomplished and Hiiaka soon saw the body of her enemy the dragon-god trampled underfoot.

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**Who acts:** Hiiaka, dragon god · **What happens:** accomplish, see, trample, slaughter · **To what, where:** slaughter, body, underfoot, reptile horde

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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: who acts (Hiiaka, dragon god), 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:pg66516:20:59
# text = The slaughter of the reptile horde was quickly accomplished and Hiiaka soon saw the body of her enemy the dragon-god trampled underfoot.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	slaughter	slaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	reptile	reptile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	horde	horde	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
23	trampled	trample	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	underfoot	underfoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accomplish** | past · passive |  | the slaughter of the reptile horde |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **see** | past | Hiiaka | the body of Hiiaka's enemy |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer body=Stimulus |
| 3 | **trample** | participle | the dragon god *not said here* | underfoot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **slaughter** |  |  | the reptile horde |  |  |  |  | nom slaughter «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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