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title: He named the group “The Sandwich Islands,” in honour of Lord Sandwic… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He named the group “The Sandwich Islands,” in honour of Lord Sandwich, the patron of the expedition. 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 5

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He named the group “The Sandwich Islands,” in honour of Lord Sandwich, the patron of the expedition.

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**Who acts:** response · **What happens:** name, honour · **To what, where:** group, Lord Sandwich

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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:pg66357:12:5
# text = He named the group “The Sandwich Islands,” in honour of Lord Sandwich, the patron of the expedition.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	named	name	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Sandwich	Sandwich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Sandwich	Sandwich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	patron	patron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	expedition	expedition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | past | response | the group  the Sandwich Islands in honour of Lord Sandwich |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Theme |
| 2 | **honour** |  |  | Lord Sandwich |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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