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title: Columbus, in 1492, went west that he might find more ready access to… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Columbus, in 1492, went west that he might find more ready access to these eastern riches. Who acts: Columbus. 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 7

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Columbus, in 1492, went west that he might find more ready access to these eastern riches.

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**Who acts:** Columbus · **What happens:** go, find · **To what, where:** more ready access

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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 (Columbus), 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:pg66357:11:7
# text = Columbus, in 1492, went west that he might find more ready access to these eastern riches.
1	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1492	1492	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	west	west	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
13	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Columbus |  |  |  |  | west *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | might | Columbus | more ready access |  |  |  | to this eastern riches | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent access=Topic |

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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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