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title: The rider with the longer sled was content to push his sled rapidly… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The rider with the longer sled was content to push his sled rapidly a few feet and then dash down the hillside. Who acts: rider. 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 163

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The rider with the longer sled was content to push his sled rapidly a few feet and then dash down the hillside.

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**Who acts:** rider · **What happens:** be, push, dash down · **To what, where:** sled, hillside

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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 (rider), 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:pg66357:7:163
# text = The rider with the longer sled was content to push his sled rapidly a few feet and then dash down the hillside.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	sled	sled	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	sled	sled	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	dash	dash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
20	down	down	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hillside	hillside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the rider with the longer sled |  |  |  |  | content *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **push** | to-infinitive | the rider with the longer sled *not said here* | rider's sled |  |  |  | a few feet *obl:unmarked*; rapidly *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sled=Theme |
| 3 | **dash down** | infinitive | the rider with the longer sled *not said here* | the hillside |  |  | then |  | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hillside=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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