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title: The priest stepped back after putting on Captain Cook the oloa (the… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The priest stepped back after putting on Captain Cook the oloa (the small white tapa thrown over the god while prayer was being recited) and the red cloak haena, as was the custom with the gods. Who acts: priest. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook, with its
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 123

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The priest stepped back after putting on Captain Cook the oloa (the small white tapa thrown over the god while prayer was being recited) and the red cloak haena, as was the custom with the gods.

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**Who acts:** priest · **What happens:** step back, put, throw, recite, be · **To what, where:** oloa, Captain Cook, small white tapa, prayer

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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 (priest), 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:pg66357:12:123
# text = The priest stepped back after putting on Captain Cook the oloa (the small white tapa thrown over the god while prayer was being recited) and the red cloak haena, as was the custom with the gods.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	oloa	oloa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	tapa	tapa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
17	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
24	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	recited	recite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	haena	haena	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step back** | past | the priest |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | gerund | the priest *not said here* | the oloa and the red cloak haena |  | Captain Cook |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent oloa=Theme on cook=Destination |
| 3 | **throw** | participle |  | the small white tapa *not said here* |  |  |  | over the god | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over god=Destination |
| 4 | **recite** | past · passive |  | prayer |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as the custom; with the gods | tree rules |

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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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