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title: The rider with the swiftest and most skilfully managed surf board wa… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The rider with the swiftest and most skilfully managed surf board was chosen from each group. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 126

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The rider with the swiftest and most skilfully managed surf board was chosen from each group.

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**What happens:** manage, choose · **To what, where:** managed surf board, group

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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: 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:pg66357:7:126
# text = The rider with the swiftest and most skilfully managed surf board was chosen from each group.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	swiftest	swift	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
8	skilfully	skilfully	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	managed	manage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
10	surf	surf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manage** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | skilfully *property* | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **choose** | past · passive |  | managed surf board |  | each group |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from group=Source |

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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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