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title: When he despoiled a temple of its woodwork and carried off idols for… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: When he despoiled a temple of its woodwork and carried off idols for firewood to use upon his ships, the natives made no protest. Who acts: Cook, 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 91

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When he despoiled a temple of its woodwork and carried off idols for firewood to use upon his ships, the natives made no protest.

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**Who acts:** Cook, natives · **What happens:** despoil, carry off, use, make · **To what, where:** temple, idols, protest

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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 (Cook, 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:pg66357:12:91
# text = When he despoiled a temple of its woodwork and carried off idols for firewood to use upon his ships, the natives made no protest.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	despoiled	despoil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	woodwork	woodwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	idols	idol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	firewood	firewood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	natives	native	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	protest	protest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **despoil** | past | Cook | a temple of temple's woodwork |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temple=Source |
| 2 | **carry off** | past |  | idols |  |  |  | for firewood | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idol=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | upon Cook's ships | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | past | the natives | no protest |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset protest=Product |

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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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