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title: This theft of a boat was the cause of the quarrel with, and death of… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: This theft of a boat was the cause of the quarrel with, and death of, Captain Cook. Who acts: theft, 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 153

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This theft of a boat was the cause of the quarrel with, and death of, Captain Cook.

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**Who acts:** theft, Captain Cook · **What happens:** be, die · **To what, where:** cause

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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 (theft, 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:pg66357:12:153
# text = This theft of a boat was the cause of the quarrel with, and death of, Captain Cook.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	theft	theft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | this theft of a boat | the cause |  |  |  | of the quarrel; death of Captain Cook *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **die** |  | Captain Cook |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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 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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