🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 91

Over a hundred chiefs, throwing aside their cloaks and putting on tall helmets making the average stature about eight feet and, taking slender, thin paddles, ranged themselves before the king in lines, and then passed through a series of gymnastic exercises, gracefully moving the paddles in exact harmony, at the same time changing their positions, passing in and out between one another, sometimes forming squares, circles and semi-circles.

Who acts: throwing, same time · What happens: throw, put, make, take, range, pass · To what, where: cloaks, hundred chiefs, tall helmets, average stature, slender thin paddles, paddles

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 (throwing, same time), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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