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title: The boards and their riders were thrown against and over one another. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The boards and their riders were thrown against and over one another. 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 145

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The boards and their riders were thrown against and over one another.

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**What happens:** throw · **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: 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:pg66357:7:145
# text = The boards and their riders were thrown against and over one another.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boards	board	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	riders	rider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	against	against	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	_
12	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past · passive |  | the boards and boards's riders |  |  |  | one *conj* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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