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title: A successful completion of such a ride marked a high degree of combi… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: A successful completion of such a ride marked a high degree of combined courage and training and judgment. Who acts: successful completion. 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 139

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A successful completion of such a ride marked a high degree of combined courage and training and judgment.

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**Who acts:** successful completion · **What happens:** mark, combine, complete · **To what, where:** high degree, ride

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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 (successful completion), 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:pg66357:7:139
# text = A successful completion of such a ride marked a high degree of combined courage and training and judgment.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	completion	completion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	7	det:predet	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	combined	combine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | past | a successful completion of such ride | a high degree of combined courage and training and judgment |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent degree=Destination |
| 2 | **combine** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **complete** |  |  | such ride |  |  |  |  | nom completion «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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