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title: On the 29th of that month they secured water and purchased food. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: On the 29th of that month they secured water and purchased food. Who acts: 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 195

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On the 29th of that month they secured water and purchased food.

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**Who acts:** ships · **What happens:** secure, purchase · **To what, where:** water, 29th

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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 (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:pg66357:12:195
# text = On the 29th of that month they secured water and purchased food.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	29th	29th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	secured	secure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	purchased	purchase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **secure** | past | ships *= ship* | water and purchased food |  | the 29th of that month |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme on 29th=Source |
| 2 | **purchase** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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