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title: It was nearly ten miles away—but that would be only a short morning’… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: It was nearly ten miles away—but that would be only a short morning’s race for the hardy chiefs. Who acts: scene, that. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 155

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It was nearly ten miles away—but that would be only a short morning’s race for the hardy chiefs.

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**Who acts:** scene, that · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** ten miles, race

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scene, that), 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:pg66357:14:155
# text = It was nearly ten miles away—but that would be only a short morning’s race for the hardy chiefs.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	hardy	hardy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | scene | ten miles |  |  |  | away, nearly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | would | that | a short morning's race |  |  | morning | for the hardy chiefs | tree rules |

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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 Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (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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