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title: He and another chief launched a double canoe and sailed quickly acro… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He and another chief launched a double canoe and sailed quickly across. Who acts: 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 165

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He and another chief launched a double canoe and sailed quickly across.

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**Who acts:** Cook · **What happens:** launch, sail · **To what, where:** double canoe

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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 (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:pg66357:12:165
# text = He and another chief launched a double canoe and sailed quickly across.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	launched	launch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	across	across	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **launch** | past | Cook | a double canoe |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme |
| 2 | **sail** | past | Cook *not said here* |  |  |  |  | across, quickly *property* | 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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