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title: They both excelled in the sports and athletic feats which were the c… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: They both excelled in the sports and athletic feats which were the chief occupation of those days. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 32

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They both excelled in the sports and athletic feats which were the chief occupation of those days.

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**What happens:** excel, be · **To what, where:** chiefs, sports, chief occupation

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele. 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:pg66516:7:32
# text = They both excelled in the sports and athletic feats which were the chief occupation of those days.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	excelled	excel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	athletic	athletic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	feats	feat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **excel** | participle · passive |  | chiefs *= chief* |  | the sports and athletic feats |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the chief occupation |  |  | day | which *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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