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title: Ordinarily many surf waves passed from beneath the surf-riders befor… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Ordinarily many surf waves passed from beneath the surf-riders before they could complete the long distance over the sea. Who acts: waves. 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 131

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Ordinarily many surf waves passed from beneath the surf-riders before they could complete the long distance over the sea.

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**Who acts:** waves · **What happens:** pass, complete · **To what, where:** many surf waves, surf riders, long distance, sea

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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: who acts (waves), 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:pg66357:7:131
# text = Ordinarily many surf waves passed from beneath the surf-riders before they could complete the long distance over the sea.
1	Ordinarily	ordinarily	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	surf	surf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	surf	surf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	riders	rider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	complete	complete	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | participle |  | many surf waves *not said here* |  | the surf riders |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from rider=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **complete** | could | waves *= wave* | the long distance |  | the sea |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Eventuality |

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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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