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title: Captain King wrote the account given in “Cook’s Voyages.” — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Captain King wrote the account given in “Cook’s Voyages.” Who acts: Captain King, Cook. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 10

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Captain King wrote the account given in “Cook’s Voyages.”

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**Who acts:** Captain King, Cook · **What happens:** write, give, voyage · **To what, where:** account, Voyages

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Captain King, Cook), 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:pg66357:12:10
# text = Captain King wrote the account given in “Cook’s Voyages.”
1	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	Voyages	voyage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | Captain King | the account |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | participle |  | the account *not said here* |  | Cook's Voyages |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **voyage** *in a quote* |  | Cook |  |  |  |  |  | nom voyage «act 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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