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title: He fled to the “Sandwich Islands,” and in November, 1778, sighted th… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He fled to the “Sandwich Islands,” and in November, 1778, sighted the island of Maui, or, as Captain Cook phonetically spelled it, “Mowee.” Who acts: Captain. 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 108

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He fled to the “Sandwich Islands,” and in November, 1778, sighted the island of Maui, or, as Captain Cook phonetically spelled it, “Mowee.”

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**Who acts:** Captain · **What happens:** flee, sight, spell · **To what, where:** Sandwich Islands, island, Captain Cook

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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), 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:pg66357:12:108
# text = He fled to the “Sandwich Islands,” and in November, 1778, sighted the island of Maui, or, as Captain Cook phonetically spelled it, “Mowee.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Sandwich	Sandwich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	1778	1778	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	sighted	sight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	phonetically	phonetically	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	spelled	spell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Mowee	Mowee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | past | Captain |  |  | the Sandwich Islands | november |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **sight** | past | Captain *not said here* | the island of Maui |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer island=Stimulus |
| 3 | **spell** | participle · passive |  | Captain Cook |  |  |  | Mowee *obl*; chart *obj*; phonetically *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme it=Manner |

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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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