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title: Keoua was defeated and driven through forests along the eastern side… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Keoua was defeated and driven through forests along the eastern side of Mauna Kea (The white mountain) to Hilo. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 15

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Keoua was defeated and driven through forests along the eastern side of Mauna Kea (The white mountain) to Hilo.

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**What happens:** defeat, drive · **To what, where:** Keoua, forests

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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: 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:pg66516:21:15
# text = Keoua was defeated and driven through forests along the eastern side of Mauna Kea (The white mountain) to Hilo.
1	Keoua	Keoua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	along	along	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Mauna	Mauna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Kea	Kea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Hilo	Hilo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **defeat** | past · passive |  | Keoua |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drive** | participle |  |  |  | forests |  | along the eastern side of Mauna Kea | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through forest=Trajectory |

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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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