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title: “Keoua and his followers, of whom the narrator of this scene were a… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: “Keoua and his followers, of whom the narrator of this scene were a part, retreated in the direction they had come. Who acts: Keoua, followers. 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
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 52

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“Keoua and his followers, of whom the narrator of this scene were a part, retreated in the direction they had come.

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**Who acts:** Keoua, followers · **What happens:** be, retreat, come · **To what, where:** part, direction

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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 (Keoua, followers), 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:pg66516:21:52
# text = “Keoua and his followers, of whom the narrator of this scene were a part, retreated in the direction they had come.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Keoua	Keoua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	retreated	retreat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Keoua and Keoua's followers | a part |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **retreat** *in a quote* | participle |  | a part *not said here* |  |  |  | in the direction | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in direction=Attribute |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | past · perfect | followers *= follower* | the direction *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location direction=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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