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title: Many times a sled thus turned spilt its runner on one side. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Many times a sled thus turned spilt its runner on one side. 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 171

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Many times a sled thus turned spilt its runner on one side.

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**What happens:** turn spilt · **To what, where:** runner, one side

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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:pg66357:7:171
# text = Many times a sled thus turned spilt its runner on one side.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sled	sled	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	spilt	spilt	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	runner	runner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn spilt** | past |  | shock's runner |  | one side | time | thus *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent runner=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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