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description: Sometimes this resulted in a mortifying overthrow of the rider at the first leap of the sled downward. Who acts: this. 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 162

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Sometimes this resulted in a mortifying overthrow of the rider at the first leap of the sled downward.

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**Who acts:** this · **What happens:** result, mortify, overthrow, leap · **To what, where:** mortifying overthrow, rider, sled

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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 (this), 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:pg66357:7:162
# text = Sometimes this resulted in a mortifying overthrow of the rider at the first leap of the sled downward.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	resulted	result	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	mortifying	mortify	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	overthrow	overthrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sled	sled	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	downward	downward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **result** | participle | this |  |  | a mortifying overthrow of the rider |  | at the first leap of the sled; downward, sometimes *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in overthrow=Location |
| 2 | **mortify** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **overthrow** |  |  | the rider |  |  |  |  | nom overthrow «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **leap** |  |  | the sled |  |  |  |  | nom leap «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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