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title: There were hillsides where sled-riders had opportunity for the exerc… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: There were hillsides where sled-riders had opportunity for the exercise of every atom of skill and strength. Who acts: hillsides, sled riders. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Snow-goddess, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 60

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There were hillsides where sled-riders had opportunity for the exercise of every atom of skill and strength.

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**Who acts:** hillsides, sled riders · **What happens:** be, have, exercise · **To what, where:** opportunity, atom

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Snow-goddess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hillsides, sled riders), 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:pg66516:12:60
# text = There were hillsides where sled-riders had opportunity for the exercise of every atom of skill and strength.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hillsides	hillside	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
5	sled	sled	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	riders	rider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	atom	atom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | hillsides |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | sled riders | opportunity |  |  |  | for the exercise of every atom of skill and strength | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Patient |
| 3 | **exercise** |  |  | every atom of skill and strength |  |  |  |  | nom exercise «act transitive»: of=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 Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (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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