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title: The contest required the men to go around the mountain which formed… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The contest required the men to go around the mountain which formed the larger part of the Island of Tahiti, usually a two days’ journey, with allowance for a few hours’ rest along the way. Who acts: contest, mountain, two days. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The So
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 175

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The contest required the men to go around the mountain which formed the larger part of the Island of Tahiti, usually a two days’ journey, with allowance for a few hours’ rest along the way.

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**Who acts:** contest, mountain, two days · **What happens:** require, go, form, journey · **To what, where:** men, mountain, larger part

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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 (contest, mountain, two days), 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:pg66357:7:175
# text = The contest required the men to go around the mountain which formed the larger part of the Island of Tahiti, usually a two days’ journey, with allowance for a few hours’ rest along the way.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	contest	contest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	required	require	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
8	around	around	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Tahiti	Tahiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	allowance	allowance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
37	along	along	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **require** | past | the contest | the men |  |  |  | along the way; a two days's journey with allowance for a few hours's rest *obl* | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | the contest *not said here* |  |  | the mountain |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme around mountain=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **form** | past | the mountain | the larger part of the Island of Tahiti |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=Theme |
| 4 | **journey** |  | a two days |  |  |  |  | with allowance for a few hours's rest | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |

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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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