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title: They swept the European coast; they infested Mediterranean waters; t… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: They swept the European coast; they infested Mediterranean waters; they found the North Atlantic islands. Who acts: Vikings. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, A Viking of the Pacific, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 10

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They swept the European coast; they infested Mediterranean waters; they found the North Atlantic islands.

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**Who acts:** Vikings · **What happens:** sweep, infest, find · **To what, where:** European coast, Mediterranean waters, Atlantic islands

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, A Viking of the Pacific. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vikings), 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:pg66357:5:10
# text = They swept the European coast; they infested Mediterranean waters; they found the North Atlantic islands.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	infested	infest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweep** | past | Vikings *= viking* | the European coast |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme coast=Trajectory |
| 2 | **infest** | past | Vikings *= viking* | Mediterranean waters |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Destination |
| 3 | **find** | past | Vikings *= viking* | the Atlantic islands |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Topic |

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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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