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title: They robed Captain Cook with red native cloth and rich feather cloaks. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: They robed Captain Cook with red native cloth and rich feather cloaks. Who acts: natives. 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 88

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They robed Captain Cook with red native cloth and rich feather cloaks.

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**Who acts:** natives · **What happens:** robe · **To what, where:** Captain Cook

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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 (natives), 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:pg66357:12:88
# text = They robed Captain Cook with red native cloth and rich feather cloaks.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	robed	robe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	cloaks	cloak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **robe** | past | natives *= native* |  | Captain Cook |  |  | with red native cloth and rich feather cloaks | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent cook=Destination with cloth=Theme |

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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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