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title: Six spears were to be hurled at once by six chiefs not over sixty fe… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Six spears were to be hurled at once by six chiefs not over sixty feet distant from the catcher. Who acts: six chiefs. 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 197

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Six spears were to be hurled at once by six chiefs not over sixty feet distant from the catcher.

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**Who acts:** six chiefs · **What happens:** hurl · **To what, where:** Six spears

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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 (six chiefs), 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:pg66357:7:197
# text = Six spears were to be hurled at once by six chiefs not over sixty feet distant from the catcher.
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	hurled	hurl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:agent	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	over	over	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	catcher	catcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurl** | past · passive | six chiefs | Six spears |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent subject=Theme at once=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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