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title: When the natives saw the ships returning they went out again, but no… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: When the natives saw the ships returning they went out again, but not as before. Who acts: natives, ships. 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 138

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When the natives saw the ships returning they went out again, but not as before.

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**Who acts:** natives, ships · **What happens:** see, return, go out · **To what, where:** ships

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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 (natives, ships), 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:pg66357:12:138
# text = When the natives saw the ships returning they went out again, but not as before.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	natives	native	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	returning	return	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	before	before	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the natives | the ships |  |  |  | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus |
| 2 | **return** | gerund | the ships *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go out** | past | natives *= native* |  |  |  | again | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP 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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