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title: Ledyard, an American petty officer on one of Captain Cook’s ships, w… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Ledyard, an American petty officer on one of Captain Cook’s ships, wrote a story published in America. Who acts: Ledyard. 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 11

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Ledyard, an American petty officer on one of Captain Cook’s ships, wrote a story published in America.

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**Who acts:** Ledyard · **What happens:** write, publish · **To what, where:** story, America

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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 (Ledyard), 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:pg66357:12:11
# text = Ledyard, an American petty officer on one of Captain Cook’s ships, wrote a story published in America.
1	Ledyard	Ledyard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	petty	petty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
15	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | Ledyard | a story |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 2 | **publish** | participle |  | a story *not said here* |  | America |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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