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title: Here they were accustomed to throw heavy hardwood darts, which, slid… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Here they were accustomed to throw heavy hardwood darts, which, sliding along the path, would either pass between two marks at a given distance from the thrower or sometimes strike a small stick set upright at the end of a straight line drawn along the centre of the path. Who acts: heavy hardwood da
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 181

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Here they were accustomed to throw heavy hardwood darts, which, sliding along the path, would either pass between two marks at a given distance from the thrower or sometimes strike a small stick set upright at the end of a straight line drawn along the centre of the path.

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**Who acts:** heavy hardwood darts · **What happens:** accustom, throw, slide, pass, give, strike · **To what, where:** chiefs, heavy hardwood darts, path, two marks, small stick, end

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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 (heavy hardwood darts), 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:pg66357:7:181
# text = Here they were accustomed to throw heavy hardwood darts, which, sliding along the path, would either pass between two marks at a given distance from the thrower or sometimes strike a small stick set upright at the end of a straight line drawn along the centre of the path.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	hardwood	hardwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	darts	dart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	sliding	slide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
14	along	along	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	_
20	pass	pass	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	between	between	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	thrower	thrower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	33	advmod	_	_
33	strike	strike	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
38	upright	upright	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
46	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	acl	_	_
47	along	along	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accustom** | past · passive |  | chiefs *= chief* |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **throw** | to-infinitive |  | heavy hardwood darts |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dart=Theme |
| 3 | **slide** | gerund | heavy hardwood darts |  |  | the path |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along path=Trajectory |
| 4 | **pass** | would |  |  |  | two marks |  | at a given distance from the thrower; either *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between mark=Location |
| 5 | **give** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **strike** | infinitive |  | a small stick |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient |
| 7 | **set** | participle |  | a small stick *not said here* |  |  | at the end of a straight line | upright *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at end=Destination |
| 8 | **draw** | participle |  | a straight line *not said here* |  |  |  | along the centre of the path | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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