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title: Sailors saw these men in red cloaks, fired upon them from the ships… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Sailors saw these men in red cloaks, fired upon them from the ships and killed one of them. Who acts: Sailors. 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 166

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Sailors saw these men in red cloaks, fired upon them from the ships and killed one of them.

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**Who acts:** Sailors · **What happens:** see, fire, kill · **To what, where:** men, red cloaks, ships, one

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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 (Sailors), 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:pg66357:12:166
# text = Sailors saw these men in red cloaks, fired upon them from the ships and killed one of them.
1	Sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cloaks	cloak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	fired	fire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Sailors | this men |  | red cloaks |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fire** | participle |  | red cloaks *not said here* |  | the ships |  | upon sailors *= sailor* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent upon they=Destination |
| 3 | **kill** | past | Sailors *not said here* | one of sailors |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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