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title: Others pushed their boards rapidly through the first waves encounter… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Others pushed their boards rapidly through the first waves encountered. Who acts: Others, first 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 134

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Others pushed their boards rapidly through the first waves encountered.

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**Who acts:** Others, first waves · **What happens:** push, encounter · **To what, where:** boards

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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 (Others, first 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:pg66357:7:134
# text = Others pushed their boards rapidly through the first waves encountered.
1	Others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	boards	board	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	through	through	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	encountered	encounter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | past | Others | shore's boards |  |  |  | rapidly *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Theme |
| 2 | **encounter** | past | the first waves |  |  |  |  |  | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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