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title: The stone was to be rolled more than the ordinary distance, made to… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The stone was to be rolled more than the ordinary distance, made to pass between two upright sticks, then between two more posts, and then some distance beyond strike a mark set up in the centre of the track. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii, with its 
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 191

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The stone was to be rolled more than the ordinary distance, made to pass between two upright sticks, then between two more posts, and then some distance beyond strike a mark set up in the centre of the track.

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**What happens:** roll, make, pass, set up · **To what, where:** stone, two upright sticks, mark, centre

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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:pg66357:7:191
# text = The stone was to be rolled more than the ordinary distance, made to pass between two upright sticks, then between two more posts, and then some distance beyond strike a mark set up in the centre of the track.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	obj	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	between	between	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	upright	upright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
22	between	between	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
31	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	strike	strike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
35	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | past · passive |  | the stone |  |  |  | some distance beyond strike and a mark *obl* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme more=Result |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | two upright sticks |  | between two more posts | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between stick=Location |
| 4 | **set up** | participle |  | a mark *not said here* |  | the centre of the track |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in centre=Destination |

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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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