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title: February 21, 1794, he entered into an agreement with Ka-meha-meha I… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: February 21, 1794, he entered into an agreement with Ka-meha-meha I and his Council of Chiefs to receive the islands under the protection of Great Britain. Who acts: Vancouver. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 6

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February 21, 1794, he entered into an agreement with Ka-meha-meha I and his Council of Chiefs to receive the islands under the protection of Great Britain.

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**Who acts:** Vancouver · **What happens:** enter, receive, protect · **To what, where:** 21, agreement, islands, protection, Great Britain

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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:pg66357:22:6
# text = February 21, 1794, he entered into an agreement with Ka-meha-meha I and his Council of Chiefs to receive the islands under the protection of Great Britain.
1	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
2	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	1794	1794	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	conj	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Chiefs	Chief	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	under	under	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
32	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | Vancouver | 21  February |  | a agreement |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into agreement=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **receive** | to-infinitive | Vancouver *not said here* | the islands |  | the protection of Great Britain |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent island=Theme under protection=Location |
| 3 | **protect** |  |  | Great Britain |  |  |  |  | nom protection «act 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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