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title: Vancouver visited the “Sandwich Islands” with Captain Cook. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Vancouver visited the “Sandwich Islands” with Captain Cook. Who acts: Vancouver. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 4

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Vancouver visited the “Sandwich Islands” with Captain Cook.

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**Who acts:** Vancouver · **What happens:** visit · **To what, where:** Sandwich Islands

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vancouver), 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:pg66357:22:4
# text = Vancouver visited the “Sandwich Islands” with Captain Cook.
1	Vancouver	Vancouver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Sandwich	Sandwich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | past | Vancouver | the Sandwich Islands |  |  |  | with Captain Cook | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Co-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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