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title: They brought offerings—pigs, taro, sweet potatoes, bananas, chickens… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: They brought offerings—pigs, taro, sweet potatoes, bananas, chickens, and all such things as pleased Captain Cook. Who acts: man. 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 120

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They brought offerings—pigs, taro, sweet potatoes, bananas, chickens, and all such things as pleased Captain Cook.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** bring · **To what, where:** offerings

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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 (man), 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:pg66357:12:120
# text = They brought offerings—pigs, taro, sweet potatoes, bananas, chickens, and all such things as pleased Captain Cook.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	offerings	offering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	taro	taro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
18	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | man | offerings |  |  |  | pigs and taro *obj*; all such things as pleased Captain Cook *conj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument offering=Theme pig=Destination |

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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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