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title: Meanwhile, a captain of an English frigate, Lord George Paulet, was… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile, a captain of an English frigate, Lord George Paulet, was sent to Honolulu. 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 60

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Meanwhile, a captain of an English frigate, Lord George Paulet, was sent to Honolulu.

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**What happens:** send · **To what, where:** captain, Honolulu

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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: 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:pg66357:22:60
# text = Meanwhile, a captain of an English frigate, Lord George Paulet, was sent to Honolulu.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	frigate	frigate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	Paulet	Paulet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Honolulu	Honolulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · passive |  | a captain of a English frigate | Honolulu |  |  | meanwhile *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to honolulu=Destination |

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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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