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title: There followed a great battle in which Pii attacked all the warriors… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: There followed a great battle in which Pii attacked all the warriors belonging to the wounded chief. Who acts: Pii, warriors. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 20

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There followed a great battle in which Pii attacked all the warriors belonging to the wounded chief.

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**Who acts:** Pii, warriors · **What happens:** follow, attack, belong · **To what, where:** great battle, warriors

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Owl Ghost-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pii, warriors), 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:pg66516:6:20
# text = There followed a great battle in which Pii attacked all the warriors belonging to the wounded chief.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
8	Pii	Pii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	attacked	attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past |  | a great battle |  | there |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Theme |
| 2 | **attack** | past | Pii | all warriors |  | a great battle |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Patient |
| 3 | **belong** | gerund | all warriors *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the wounded chief | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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