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title: Captain Cook had issued an order forbidding canoes to come near the… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Captain Cook had issued an order forbidding canoes to come near the ships. Who acts: order. 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 168

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Captain Cook had issued an order forbidding canoes to come near the ships.

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**Who acts:** order · **What happens:** issue, forbid, come · **To what, where:** Captain, canoes, ships

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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 (order), 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:pg66357:12:168
# text = Captain Cook had issued an order forbidding canoes to come near the ships.
1	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	issued	issue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	forbidding	forbid	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
11	near	near	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **issue** | past · perfect · passive |  | Captain |  |  |  | a order *obj* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal order=Theme |
| 2 | **forbid** | gerund | a order *not said here* | canoes |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer canoe=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | a order *not said here* |  |  | the ships |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near ship=Location |

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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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