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title: The captain of the ship carried a long sword which became renowned t… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The captain of the ship carried a long sword which became renowned throughout the islands as “the wonderful iron knife.” Who acts: captain. 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 41

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The captain of the ship carried a long sword which became renowned throughout the islands as “the wonderful iron knife.”

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**Who acts:** captain · **What happens:** carry, renown · **To what, where:** long sword

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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 (captain), 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:pg66357:11:41
# text = The captain of the ship carried a long sword which became renowned throughout the islands as “the wonderful iron knife.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	renowned	renown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | the captain of the ship | a long sword |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 2 | **renown** | past · passive |  | a long sword |  |  | throughout the islands | as the wonderful iron knife | tree rules |

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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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