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title: This was an exciting and sometimes dangerous sport. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: This was an exciting and sometimes dangerous sport. 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 167

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This was an exciting and sometimes dangerous sport.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** exciting sport

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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:pg66357:7:167
# text = This was an exciting and sometimes dangerous sport.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	exciting	exciting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
8	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | This | a exciting sport |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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