--- title: Each combatant approached the other, trying to make the audience thi… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics description: Each combatant approached the other, trying to make the audience think that he considered his antagonist so far beneath his notice that he only needed to move his arm and the match would be over. Who acts: combatant, match. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/7/104/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Historical Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/) / [The Sons of Kii](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/7/) / 104 # Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 104 Each combatant approached the other, trying to make the audience think that he considered his antagonist so far beneath his notice that he only needed to move his arm and the match would be over. **Who acts:** combatant, match · **What happens:** approach, try, make, think, consider, need · **To what, where:** other, audience, antagonist, arm · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (combatant, match), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66357:7:104 # text = Each combatant approached the other, trying to make the audience think that he considered his antagonist so far beneath his notice that he only needed to move his arm and the match would be over. 1 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 combatant combatant NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 approached approach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 audience audience NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 considered consider VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 antagonist antagonist NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 20 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 notice notice NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 only only ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 match match NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 34 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 cop _ _ 36 over over ADV RB _ 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **approach** | past | each combatant | the other | | | | | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme | | 2 | **try** | gerund | each combatant *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | | the audience | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset audience=Product | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **consider** | past | combatant | combatant's antagonist | | | | far *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent antagonist=Attribute | | 6 | **need** | past | combatant | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **move** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | combatant *not said here* | combatant's arm | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | | 8 | **is** | would | the match | | | | | over *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **notice** | | combatant | | | | | | nom notice «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **Text:** «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. 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