Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 172

It was considered evidence of great skill when a rider instantaneously adjusted himself to a broken sled, kept it in its course and finally landed safely in the smooth plain below.

Who acts: rider · What happens: consider, adjust, break, keep, land, evidence · To what, where: shock, rider, broken sled, course, smooth plain, great skill

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 (rider), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 considered	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 considered	aux:pass
3	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 considered	xcomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 skill	case
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 skill	amod
7	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 evidence	nmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 adjusted	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rider	det
10	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 adjusted	nsubj
11	instantaneously	instantaneously	ADV	_	12 adjusted	advmod
12	adjusted	adjust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 considered	advcl
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 adjusted	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 sled	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 sled	det
16	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 sled	amod
17	sled	sled	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 adjusted	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 kept	punct
19	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 considered	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 kept	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 course	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 course	nmod:poss
23	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kept	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 landed	cc
25	finally	finally	ADV	_	26 landed	advmod
26	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 kept	conj
27	safely	safely	ADV	_	26 landed	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 plain	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 plain	det
30	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 plain	amod
31	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 landed	obl
32	below	below	ADV	_	31 plain	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 considered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	consider	past · passive		shock		evidence of great skill xcomp	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
2	adjust	past	a rider	rider		to a broken sled goal; instantaneously property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient to sled=Goal
3	break	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	keep	past		shock	shock's course		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in course=Location
5	land	past			the smooth plain	finally, safely property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in plain=Destination
6	evidence			great skill			nom evidence «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 172

The tree

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 172