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title: Gaetano passed through the northern part of the Pacific and discover… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Gaetano passed through the northern part of the Pacific and discovered large islands which he marked upon a chart as “Los Majos.” Who acts: Gaetano. 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 55

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Gaetano passed through the northern part of the Pacific and discovered large islands which he marked upon a chart as “Los Majos.”

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**Who acts:** Gaetano · **What happens:** pass, discover, mark · **To what, where:** northern part, large islands, chart

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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 (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:pg66357:11:55
# text = Gaetano passed through the northern part of the Pacific and discovered large islands which he marked upon a chart as “Los Majos.”
1	Gaetano	Gaetano	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	chart	chart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Los	Los	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	Majos	Majos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | Gaetano |  |  | the northern part of the Pacific |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through part=Location |
| 2 | **discover** | past | Gaetano *not said here* | large islands |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Topic |
| 3 | **mark** | past | Gaetano | large islands |  | a chart |  | as Los | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme upon chart=Destination |

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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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