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title: The moment they reached the summit they hastened to the edge that br… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The moment they reached the summit they hastened to the edge that broke in a sheer precipice to the ocean’s brink. Who acts: moment, points, edge. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 11

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The moment they reached the summit they hastened to the edge that broke in a sheer precipice to the ocean’s brink.

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**Who acts:** moment, points, edge · **What happens:** reach, hasten, break · **To what, where:** summit, edge, sheer precipice

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moment, points, edge), 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:pg66357:18:11
# text = The moment they reached the summit they hastened to the edge that broke in a sheer precipice to the ocean’s brink.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	sheer	sheer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	precipice	precipice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	brink	brink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | the moment | the summit |  |  |  | points *= point* *nsubj* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent summit=Theme |
| 2 | **hasten** | past | points *= point* | the summit *not said here* |  | the edge |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent summit=Theme to edge=Trajectory |
| 3 | **break** | past | the edge |  |  | a sheer precipice |  | to the ocean's brink | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in precipice=Location |

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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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