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title: From this method of forcing unexpected battle came the Hawaiian sayi… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: From this method of forcing unexpected battle came the Hawaiian saying, “The spear seeks Waimea like the wind.” Who acts: Hawaiian saying, spear. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 14

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From this method of forcing unexpected battle came the Hawaiian saying, “The spear seeks Waimea like the wind.”

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**Who acts:** Hawaiian saying, spear · **What happens:** force, come, seek · **To what, where:** unexpected battle, method, Waimea · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hawaiian saying, spear), 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:pg66516:21:14
# text = From this method of forcing unexpected battle came the Hawaiian saying, “The spear seeks Waimea like the wind.”
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	forcing	force	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	advcl	_	_
6	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	saying	saying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	seeks	seek	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
17	Waimea	Waimea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **force** | gerund | the Hawaiian saying *not said here* | unexpected battle |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Recipient |
| 2 | **come** | past | the Hawaiian saying |  |  | this method |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seek** *in a quote* | present | the spear | Waimea |  |  |  | like the wind | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waimea=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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