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title: Sometimes the more courageous riders would rest on hands and knees w… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes the more courageous riders would rest on hands and knees while only the very skilful dared stand upright during the swift descent. Who acts: courageous riders. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 37

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Sometimes the more courageous riders would rest on hands and knees while only the very skilful dared stand upright during the swift descent.

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**Who acts:** courageous riders · **What happens:** rest · **To what, where:** skilful dared stand, hands

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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: who acts (courageous 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:pg66516:7:37
# text = Sometimes the more courageous riders would rest on hands and knees while only the very skilful dared stand upright during the swift descent.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	courageous	courageous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	riders	rider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	skilful	skilful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	dared	dared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	stand	stand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
19	upright	upright	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	during	during	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	swift	swift	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | would | the courageous riders | the skilful dared stand |  | hands and knees | during the swift descent | sometimes *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Location |

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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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