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title: The historian must remember that there were thousands of native eye-… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The historian must remember that there were thousands of native eye-witnesses whose records cannot be overlooked in securing a true history. Who acts: historian, thousands. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 13

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The historian must remember that there were thousands of native eye-witnesses whose records cannot be overlooked in securing a true history.

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**Who acts:** historian, thousands · **What happens:** remember, be, not overlook, secure · **To what, where:** records, true history · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (historian, thousands), 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:pg66357:12:13
# text = The historian must remember that there were thousands of native eye-witnesses whose records cannot be overlooked in securing a true history.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	historian	historian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	witnesses	witness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
14	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	records	record	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	overlooked	overlook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
20	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	securing	secure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | must | the historian |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | thousands of native eye witnesses |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **overlook** | can · passive |  | records |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **secure** | gerund |  | a true history |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition history=Theme |

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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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