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title: Then for eleven days Captain Cook sailed in the channel between Maui… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Then for eleven days Captain Cook sailed in the channel between Maui and Hawaii. Who acts: eleven days. 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 113

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Then for eleven days Captain Cook sailed in the channel between Maui and Hawaii.

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**Who acts:** eleven days · **What happens:** sail · **To what, where:** channel

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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 (eleven days), 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:pg66357:12:113
# text = Then for eleven days Captain Cook sailed in the channel between Maui and Hawaii.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	channel	channel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past | eleven days |  |  | the channel between Maui and Hawaii | then |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: 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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