Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 128

Some of the surf-riders contented themselves by simply lying on the board, endeavouring by skilful use of hand and foot to hasten their passage on the crest of the huge surf waves.

Who acts: Some, hundreds · What happens: content, lie, endeavour, hasten, use, pass · To what, where: hundreds, board, passage, crest, hand

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 (Some, hundreds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 contented	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 riders	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 riders	det
4	surf	surf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 riders	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 surf	punct
6	riders	rider	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 contented	obl
7	contented	content	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 contented	obj
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 lying	mark
10	simply	simply	ADV	_	11 lying	advmod
11	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 contented	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 board	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 board	det
14	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lying	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 endeavouring	punct
16	endeavouring	endeavour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 lying	conj
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 use	case
18	skilful	skilful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 use	amod
19	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 endeavouring	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 hand	case
21	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 use	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 foot	cc
23	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 use	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 hasten	mark
25	hasten	hasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 endeavouring	advcl
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 passage	nmod:poss
27	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hasten	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 crest	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 crest	det
30	crest	crest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hasten	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	35 waves	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 waves	det
33	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 waves	amod
34	surf	surf	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 waves	compound
35	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 crest	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 contented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	content	past	Some	hundreds = hundred		of the surf riders	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer
2	lie	gerund	Some not said here		the board	simply property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on board=Location
3	endeavour	gerund	Some not said here			by skilful use of hand and foot	tree rules
4	hasten	to-infinitive	Some not said here	hundreds's passage	the crest of the huge surf waves		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent passage=Theme on crest=Trajectory
5	use			hand			nom use «act transitive»: of=patient
6	pass		hundreds = hundred				nom passage «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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.

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 128

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 128