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title: On sped the eight hundred bronzed and sinewy athletes. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: On sped the eight hundred bronzed and sinewy athletes. 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 163

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On sped the eight hundred bronzed and sinewy athletes.

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**What happens:** speed, bronze · **To what, where:** hundred bronzed athletes

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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: 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:pg66357:14:163
# text = On sped the eight hundred bronzed and sinewy athletes.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	sped	speed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
4	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	compound	_	_
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
6	bronzed	bronze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sinewy	sinewy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	athletes	athlete	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speed** | past |  | the hundred bronzed athletes |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent athlete=Agent |
| 2 | **bronze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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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