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title: They named the countries newly discovered after their own fancies, a… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: They named the countries newly discovered after their own fancies, as Flatland, Woodland, and Vinland, for Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Massachusetts, respectively. Who acts: Vikings, countries. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, A Viking of the Pacific, with its depen
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 12

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They named the countries newly discovered after their own fancies, as Flatland, Woodland, and Vinland, for Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Massachusetts, respectively.

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**Who acts:** Vikings, countries · **What happens:** name, discover, fancy

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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, countries), 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:pg66357:5:12
# text = They named the countries newly discovered after their own fancies, as Flatland, Woodland, and Vinland, for Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Massachusetts, respectively.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	named	name	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fancies	fancy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Flatland	Flatland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Woodland	Woodland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Vinland	Vinland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Newfoundland	Newfoundland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Nova	Nova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
24	Scotia	Scotia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Massachusetts	Massachusetts	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	respectively	respectively	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | past | Vikings *= viking* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **discover** | past | the countries |  |  |  | after Vikings's own fancies as Flatland and Vinland and Newfoundland and Massachusetts | newly *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fancy** |  | Vikings *= viking* |  |  |  |  | as Flatland and Vinland and Newfoundland and Massachusetts | nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=agent as=obl |

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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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