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title: There was nothing attractive, and the wealth-loving Spaniard marked… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: There was nothing attractive, and the wealth-loving Spaniard marked the islands on his chart and never visited them again. Who acts: nothing, loving Spaniard, Gaetano. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 61

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There was nothing attractive, and the wealth-loving Spaniard marked the islands on his chart and never visited them again.

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**Who acts:** nothing, loving Spaniard, Gaetano · **What happens:** be, mark, not visit, chart · **To what, where:** 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 (nothing, loving Spaniard, 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:pg66357:11:61
# text = There was nothing attractive, and the wealth-loving Spaniard marked the islands on his chart and never visited them again.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
4	attractive	attractive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Spaniard	Spaniard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	chart	chart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **mark** | past | the loving Spaniard | the islands |  | Gaetano's chart |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent island=Theme on chart=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **visit** | past | the loving Spaniard *not said here* | islands *= island* |  |  | again |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **chart** |  | Gaetano |  |  |  |  |  | nom chart «communication transitive»: poss=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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