--- title: “They went before Kapena Kuke (Captain Cook), bent over, squatted do… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics description: “They went before Kapena Kuke (Captain Cook), bent over, squatted down, and offered prayers, repeating words over and over; then took the hand of Kapena Kuke and knelt down; then rose up free from any tabu.” Who acts: chief. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Co --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/12/41/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Historical Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/) / [Captain Cook](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/12/) / 41 # Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 41 “They went before Kapena Kuke (Captain Cook), bent over, squatted down, and offered prayers, repeating words over and over; then took the hand of Kapena Kuke and knelt down; then rose up free from any tabu.” **Who acts:** chief · **What happens:** go, bend over, squat down, offer, repeat, take · **To what, where:** offered prayers, Kapena Kuke, words, hand, tabu 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 (chief), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66357:12:41 # text = “They went before Kapena Kuke (Captain Cook), bent over, squatted down, and offered prayers, repeating words over and over; then took the hand of Kapena Kuke and knelt down; then rose up free from any tabu.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 before before ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 Kapena Kapena PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Kuke Kuke PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Captain Captain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Cook Cook PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 bent bend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl:relcl _ _ 13 over over ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 squatted squat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 16 down down ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 offered offer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 amod _ _ 20 prayers prayer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 repeating repeat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 advcl _ _ 23 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 over over ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 over over ADV RB _ 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 29 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Kapena Kapena PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 Kuke Kuke PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 flat _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 knelt kneel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 37 down down ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 40 advmod _ _ 40 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 41 up up ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ _ 42 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 xcomp _ _ 43 from from ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 45 det _ _ 45 tabu tabu NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** *in a quote* | past | chief | offered prayers | | Kapena Kuke | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before kuke=Location | | 2 | **bend over** *in a quote* | participle | | Kapena Kuke *not said here* | | | | over *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **squat down** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **offer** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **repeat** *in a quote* | gerund | chief *not said here* | words | | | | over *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality | | 6 | **take** *in a quote* | past | | the hand of Kapena | | | then | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 7 | **kneel down** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **rise up** *in a quote* | past | | | | any tabu | then | free *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from tabu=Initial\_Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/12/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/12/42/) - ↑ back to [Captain Cook](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/12/)