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title: They saw the skin of a bullock hanging in the front part of the ship… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: They saw the skin of a bullock hanging in the front part of the ship and said, “Another mischief-making sorceress has been killed. Who acts: Hawaiians, bullock. 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 47

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They saw the skin of a bullock hanging in the front part of the ship and said, “Another mischief-making sorceress has been killed.

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**Who acts:** Hawaiians, bullock · **What happens:** see, hang, say, make, kill · **To what, where:** skin, front part, making sorceress · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Hawaiians, bullock), 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:pg66357:12:47
# text = They saw the skin of a bullock hanging in the front part of the ship and said, “Another mischief-making sorceress has been killed.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bullock	bullock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
21	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
24	sorceress	sorceress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	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 | Hawaiians *= hawaiian* | the skin of a bullock |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skin=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hang** | gerund | a bullock *not said here* |  |  | the front part of the ship |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in part=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Hawaiians *= hawaiian* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | mischief *compound* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **kill** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | another making sorceress |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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