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title: Meanwhile, a chief living across the bay saw Captain Cook going asho… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile, a chief living across the bay saw Captain Cook going ashore. Who acts: chief, Captain Cook. 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 164

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Meanwhile, a chief living across the bay saw Captain Cook going ashore.

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**Who acts:** chief, Captain Cook · **What happens:** live, see, go · **To what, where:** bay, 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 (chief, Captain Cook), 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:pg66357:12:164
# text = Meanwhile, a chief living across the bay saw Captain Cook going ashore.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	across	across	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
13	ashore	ashore	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund | a chief *not said here* |  |  | the bay |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | a chief | Captain Cook |  |  |  | meanwhile *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | Captain Cook *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ashore *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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