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title: He recognised the close relationship in language and features, betwe… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He recognised the close relationship in language and features, between inhabitants of many of these island worlds. Who acts: response. 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 3

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He recognised the close relationship in language and features, between inhabitants of many of these island worlds.

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**Who acts:** response · **What happens:** recognise · **To what, where:** close relationship, language

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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 (response), 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:pg66357:12:3
# text = He recognised the close relationship in language and features, between inhabitants of many of these island worlds.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	relationship	relationship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	worlds	world	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognise** | past | response | the close relationship and inhabitants of this many island worlds |  | language and features |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer relationship=Stimulus |

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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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