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title: Le Perouse, the celebrated Frenchman who visited Hawaii in A.D. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Le Perouse, the celebrated Frenchman who visited Hawaii in A.D. Who acts: celebrated Frenchman. 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 59

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Le Perouse, the celebrated Frenchman who visited Hawaii in A.D.

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**Who acts:** celebrated Frenchman · **What happens:** celebrate, visit · **To what, where:** Hawaii, A.D, Le

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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 (celebrated Frenchman), 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:pg66357:11:59
# text = Le Perouse, the celebrated Frenchman who visited Hawaii in A.D.
1	Le	Le	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Perouse	Perouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	Frenchman	frenchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	A.D	A.D	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **visit** | past | the celebrated Frenchman | Hawaii |  | A.D |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hawaii=Co-Agent |

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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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