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description: Dr. Reinhold Forster, the celebrated naturalist of Captain Cook’s second voyage, drew up a table containing 47 words taken from 11 Oceanic dialects and the corresponding terms in Malay, Mexican, Peruvian and Chilian. Who acts: Reinhold, table, Captain Cook. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcano
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 26

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Dr. Reinhold Forster, the celebrated naturalist of Captain Cook’s second voyage, drew up a table containing 47 words taken from 11 Oceanic dialects and the corresponding terms in Malay, Mexican, Peruvian and Chilian.

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**Who acts:** Reinhold, table, Captain Cook · **What happens:** celebrate, draw up, contain, take, correspond, voyage · **To what, where:** table, 47 words, 11 Oceanic dialects

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Polynesian Language. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reinhold, table, Captain Cook), 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:pg66516:31:26
# text = Dr. Reinhold Forster, the celebrated naturalist of Captain Cook’s second voyage, drew up a table containing 47 words taken from 11 Oceanic dialects and the corresponding terms in Malay, Mexican, Peruvian and Chilian.
1	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Reinhold	Reinhold	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	Forster	Forster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	naturalist	naturalist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	47	47	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
25	Oceanic	oceanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	dialects	dialect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	corresponding	correspond	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	amod	_	_
30	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Malay	Malay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	Mexican	Mexican	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	Peruvian	Peruvian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	Chilian	Chilian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **draw up** | past | Reinhold  Dr. | a table |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Theme |
| 3 | **contain** | gerund | a table *not said here* | 47 words |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot word=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | participle |  | 47 words *not said here* |  | 11 Oceanic dialects and the corresponding terms in Malay and Peruvian and Chilian |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from dialect=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **correspond** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **voyage** |  | Captain Cook |  |  |  |  |  | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (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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