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title: But afterward, when death proved that Captain Cook was “a man and no… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: But afterward, when death proved that Captain Cook was “a man and no god,” the feeling of resentment was exceedingly deep and bitter. Who acts: death, Captain Cook, feeling. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 93

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But afterward, when death proved that Captain Cook was “a man and no god,” the feeling of resentment was exceedingly deep and bitter.

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**Who acts:** death, Captain Cook, feeling · **What happens:** prove, be · **To what, where:** man

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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 (death, Captain Cook, feeling), 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:pg66357:12:93
# text = But afterward, when death proved that Captain Cook was “a man and no god,” the feeling of resentment was exceedingly deep and bitter.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	afterward	afterward	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	proved	prove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	advcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	resentment	resentment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | past | death |  |  |  |  | afterward *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Captain Cook | a man and no god |  |  |  | no god *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the feeling of resentment |  |  |  |  | deep, exceedingly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the feeling of resentment *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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