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title: Other hints are found of ships having been seen out on the ocean by… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Other hints are found of ships having been seen out on the ocean by fishing parties who had gone far from land. Who acts: fishing parties. 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 50

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Other hints are found of ships having been seen out on the ocean by fishing parties who had gone far from land.

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**Who acts:** fishing parties · **What happens:** find, see out, fish, go · **To what, where:** Other hints, ocean, land · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (fishing parties), 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:pg66357:11:50
# text = Other hints are found of ships having been seen out on the ocean by fishing parties who had gone far from land.
1	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	hints	hint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
7	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	fishing	fish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present · passive |  | Other hints |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **see out** | gerund · perfect · passive | fishing parties |  |  | the ocean |  | of ships | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **fish** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | past · perfect | fishing parties |  |  | land |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from land=Initial\_Location |

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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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