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title: During the course of the entire test of the men of both Ulu and Nana… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: During the course of the entire test of the men of both Ulu and Nanaulu only two men perfectly performed this difficult task. 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 140

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During the course of the entire test of the men of both Ulu and Nanaulu only two men perfectly performed this difficult task.

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**What happens:** perform, test · **To what, where:** difficult task, men

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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:pg66357:7:140
# text = During the course of the entire test of the men of both Ulu and Nanaulu only two men perfectly performed this difficult task.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	Ulu	Ulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Nanaulu	Nanaulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
19	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	performed	perform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
22	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perform** | past |  | this difficult task |  |  | during the course of the entire test of the men of both Ulu and Nanaulu and two men |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Theme |
| 2 | **test** |  |  | the men of both Ulu and Nanaulu and two men |  |  |  |  | nom test «cognition 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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