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title: This record, kept in Spain’s archives, is now accepted as marking th… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: This record, kept in Spain’s archives, is now accepted as marking the real discovery of the Hawaiian Islands. 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 63

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This record, kept in Spain’s archives, is now accepted as marking the real discovery of the Hawaiian Islands.

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**What happens:** keep, accept, mark, discover · **To what, where:** record, archives, real discovery, Hawaiian Islands

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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: 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:pg66357:11:63
# text = This record, kept in Spain’s archives, is now accepted as marking the real discovery of the Hawaiian Islands.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	archives	archive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	accepted	accept	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	marking	mark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	discovery	discovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | participle |  | this record *not said here* |  | Spain's archives |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in archive=Location |
| 2 | **accept** | present · passive |  | this record |  |  | now |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **mark** | gerund |  | the real discovery of the Hawaiian Islands |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent discovery=Destination |
| 4 | **discover** |  |  | the Hawaiian Islands |  |  |  |  | nom discovery «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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