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title: Like Vancouver, Lord Paulet evidently had little doubt about England… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Like Vancouver, Lord Paulet evidently had little doubt about England’s glad welcome of a new colonial possession. Who acts: England. 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 65

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Like Vancouver, Lord Paulet evidently had little doubt about England’s glad welcome of a new colonial possession.

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**Who acts:** England · **What happens:** have, welcome · **To what, where:** little doubt, new colonial possession

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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 (England), 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:pg66357:22:65
# text = Like Vancouver, Lord Paulet evidently had little doubt about England’s glad welcome of a new colonial possession.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Vancouver	Vancouver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	Paulet	Paulet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	welcome	welcome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  | little doubt |  |  |  | like Vancouver and Lord; about England's glad welcome of a new colonial possession; evidently *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient |
| 2 | **welcome** |  | England | a new colonial possession |  |  |  |  | nom welcome «state transitive»: poss=agent 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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