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title: Two strong young men, about six feet in stature, were hastening toge… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Two strong young men, about six feet in stature, were hastening together along a mountain spur leading down to the harbour of Papeete. Who acts: Two strong young men, mountain spur. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 6

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Two strong young men, about six feet in stature, were hastening together along a mountain spur leading down to the harbour of Papeete.

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**Who acts:** Two strong young men, mountain spur · **What happens:** hasten, lead down · **To what, where:** mountain spur

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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 (Two strong young men, mountain spur), 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:pg66357:7:6
# text = Two strong young men, about six feet in stature, were hastening together along a mountain spur leading down to the harbour of Papeete.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	stature	stature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	hastening	hasten	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	together	together	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	along	along	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	spur	spur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Papeete	Papeete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | past · progressive | Two strong young men and six feet in stature |  |  | a mountain spur |  | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along spur=Trajectory |
| 2 | **lead down** | gerund | a mountain spur *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the harbour of Papeete; down *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to harbour=Patient |

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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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