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title: In 1743, Lord Anson, of the British ship Centurion, captured a Spani… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1743, Lord Anson, of the British ship Centurion, captured a Spanish ship near the Philippine Islands, and found a chart locating a group of islands in the North Pacific—the same group that Gaetano discovered in 1555. Who acts: Lord, chart, Gaetano. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 109

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In 1743, Lord Anson, of the British ship Centurion, captured a Spanish ship near the Philippine Islands, and found a chart locating a group of islands in the North Pacific—the same group that Gaetano discovered in 1555.

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**Who acts:** Lord, chart, Gaetano · **What happens:** capture, find, locate, discover · **To what, where:** Spanish ship, 1743, chart, group, same group, 1555

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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 (Lord, chart, Gaetano), 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:pg66357:11:109
# text = In 1743, Lord Anson, of the British ship Centurion, captured a Spanish ship near the Philippine Islands, and found a chart locating a group of islands in the North Pacific—the same group that Gaetano discovered in 1555.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1743	1743	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	Anson	Anson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
11	Centurion	Centurion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	captured	capture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	near	near	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Philippine	philippine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	chart	chart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	locating	locate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
39	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	obj	_	_
40	Gaetano	Gaetano	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	1555	1555	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **capture** | past | Lord | a Spanish ship |  | 1743 |  | near the Philippine Islands | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | Lord *not said here* | a chart |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chart=Topic |
| 3 | **locate** | gerund | a chart *not said here* | a group of islands in the North Pacific |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **discover** | past | Gaetano | the same group |  | 1555 |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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