--- title: For a time there was no motion, and people saw the champions bending… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics description: For a time there was no motion, and people saw the champions bending around each other with strained muscles, neither having any advantage, but each apparently exerting all his strength to make the other give way in response to brute strength. Who acts: motion, people, champions, each. A sentence of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/7/108/) [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/) / 108 # Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 108 For a time there was no motion, and people saw the champions bending around each other with strained muscles, neither having any advantage, but each apparently exerting all his strength to make the other give way in response to brute strength. **Who acts:** motion, people, champions, each, other · **What happens:** be, see, bend, strain, have, exert · **To what, where:** champions, each, advantage, strength, other, way 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 (motion, people, champions, each), 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:pg66357:7:108 # text = For a time there was no motion, and people saw the champions bending around each other with strained muscles, neither having any advantage, but each apparently exerting all his strength to make the other give way in response to brute strength. 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 5 expl _ _ 5 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 7 motion motion NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 champions champion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 bending bend VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 15 around around ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 14 obl _ _ 17 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 fixed _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 strained strain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 amod _ _ 20 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 23 cc:preconj _ _ 23 having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 conj _ _ 24 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 25 det _ _ 25 advantage advantage NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 30 nsubj _ _ 29 apparently apparently ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 exerting exert VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 31 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 33 det:predet _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 obj _ _ 38 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 39 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 response response NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 brute brute VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 acl _ _ 44 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | no motion | | | there | time | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **see** | past | people | the champions | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer champion=Stimulus | | 3 | **bend** | gerund | the champions *not said here* | | | each | | with strained muscles | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around each=Location | | 4 | **strain** | participle | | | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **have** | gerund | the champions *not said here* | any advantage | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Patient | | 6 | **exert** | gerund | each | motion's strength | | | | apparently *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme | | 7 | **make** | to-infinitive | each *not said here* | the other | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **give** | infinitive | the other *not said here* | way | | response | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 9 | **brute** | to-infinitive | the other *not said here* | strength | | | | | tree rules | 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. 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. - ← previous: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/7/107/) - next →: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/7/109/) - ↑ back to [The Sons of Kii](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/7/)