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title: That night guns were fired and sky-rockets sent up into the sky, for… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: That night guns were fired and sky-rockets sent up into the sky, for the sailors were glad to have found such a fine country. 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 71

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That night guns were fired and sky-rockets sent up into the sky, for the sailors were glad to have found such a fine country.

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**Who acts:** sailors · **What happens:** fire, send up, be, find · **To what, where:** night guns, sky rockets, sky, fine country

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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:pg66357:12:71
# text = That night guns were fired and sky-rockets sent up into the sky, for the sailors were glad to have found such a fine country.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	fired	fire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	rockets	rocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
10	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
23	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
24	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	27	det:predet	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fire** | past · passive |  | night guns |  |  |  | sky rockets *conj* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **send up** | participle |  | sky rockets *not said here* |  | the sky |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the sailors |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive · perfect | the sailors *not said here* | such fine country |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Topic |

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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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