--- title: Then, balancing the board on the crest of the largest inrolling wave… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics description: Then, balancing the board on the crest of the largest inrolling waves, leaped to their feet, and standing upright guided the board by the swaying of their bodies, adjusting themselves to the changing forces of the surf. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/7/135/) [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/) / 135 # Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 135 Then, balancing the board on the crest of the largest inrolling waves, leaped to their feet, and standing upright guided the board by the swaying of their bodies, adjusting themselves to the changing forces of the surf. **What happens:** balance, leap, stand, guide, adjust · **To what, where:** board, crest, largest inrolling waves, feet, boards, changing forces 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. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66357:7:135 # text = Then, balancing the board on the crest of the largest inrolling waves, leaped to their feet, and standing upright guided the board by the swaying of their bodies, adjusting themselves to the changing forces of the surf. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 balancing balance VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 crest crest NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 12 inrolling inrolling NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 leaped leap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 nsubj _ _ 22 upright upright ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 guided guide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 swaying swaying NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 adjusting adjust VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 34 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 33 obj _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 changing changing NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 forces force NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 surf surf NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **balance** | gerund | | the board | | the crest of the largest inrolling waves | then | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent board=Theme on crest=Location | | 2 | **leap** | participle | | the largest inrolling waves *not said here* | | waves's feet | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination | | 3 | **stand** | gerund | | | | | | upright *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **guide** | past | | the board | | | | by the swaying of waves's bodies | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent board=Theme by swaying=Destination | | 5 | **adjust** | gerund | | boards *= board* | | | | to the changing forces of the surf *goal* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient to force=Goal | 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 134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/7/134/) - next →: [sentence 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/7/136/) - ↑ back to [The Sons of Kii](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/7/)