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title: He is reported as making long journeys and discovering the Hawaiian… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He is reported as making long journeys and discovering the Hawaiian Islands. 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 16

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He is reported as making long journeys and discovering the Hawaiian Islands.

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**What happens:** report, make, discover · **To what, where:** first, long journeys, Hawaiian 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: 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:pg66357:5:16
# text = He is reported as making long journeys and discovering the Hawaiian Islands.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	journeys	journey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	discovering	discover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **report** | present · passive |  | first |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | gerund |  | long journeys |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset journey=Product |
| 3 | **discover** | gerund |  | the Hawaiian Islands |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «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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