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title: There are four different sources of information concerning the comin… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: There are four different sources of information concerning the coming to and death of Captain Cook in the Hawaiian Islands. Who acts: four different sources, Captain Cook. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 9

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There are four different sources of information concerning the coming to and death of Captain Cook in the Hawaiian Islands.

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**Who acts:** four different sources, Captain Cook · **What happens:** be, concern, come, die · **To what, where:** coming death, Hawaiian Islands

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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 (four different sources, Captain Cook), 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:pg66357:12:9
# text = There are four different sources of information concerning the coming to and death of Captain Cook in the Hawaiian Islands.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	amod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | four different sources of information |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **concern** | gerund | four different sources of information *not said here* | the coming death of Captain Cook |  | the Hawaiian Islands |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus death=Experiencer |
| 3 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **die** |  | Captain Cook |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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