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title: In 1513 he launched his little ship, intending to find the oriental… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1513 he launched his little ship, intending to find the oriental riches, if possible. Who acts: ocean. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 10

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In 1513 he launched his little ship, intending to find the oriental riches, if possible.

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**Who acts:** ocean · **What happens:** launch, intend, find · **To what, where:** little ship, 1513, oriental riches

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ocean), 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:pg66357:11:10
# text = In 1513 he launched his little ship, intending to find the oriental riches, if possible.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1513	1513	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	launched	launch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	intending	intend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	oriental	oriental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **launch** | past | ocean | ocean's little ship |  | 1513 |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ship=Theme in 1513=Destination |
| 2 | **intend** | gerund | ocean *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **find** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | ocean *not said here* | the oriental riches |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rich=Topic |

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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 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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