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title: Captain Cook purchased pigs for a piece of iron or barrel hoop, to m… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Captain Cook purchased pigs for a piece of iron or barrel hoop, to make axes or knives or fish-hooks. Who acts: Captain Cook. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 115

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Captain Cook purchased pigs for a piece of iron or barrel hoop, to make axes or knives or fish-hooks.

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**Who acts:** Captain Cook · **What happens:** purchase, make · **To what, where:** pigs, axes

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg66357:12:115
# text = Captain Cook purchased pigs for a piece of iron or barrel hoop, to make axes or knives or fish-hooks.
1	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	purchased	purchase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	hoop	hoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	axes	ax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	knives	knife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	hooks	hook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **purchase** | past | Captain Cook | pigs |  |  |  | for a piece of iron or barrel hoop | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent pig=Theme for piece=Asset |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | axes or knives or fish hooks |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ax=Product |

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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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