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title: There was such respect and ready service on the part of the people—t… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: There was such respect and ready service on the part of the people—there were such prostrations before the kings of the various islands that Captain Cook accepted the “worship” offered him as the proper respect due to the representative of Great Britain. Who acts: such prostrations, Captain. A sente
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 97

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There was such respect and ready service on the part of the people—there were such prostrations before the kings of the various islands that Captain Cook accepted the “worship” offered him as the proper respect due to the representative of Great Britain.

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**Who acts:** such prostrations, Captain · **What happens:** be, accept · **To what, where:** various islands, Captain

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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 (such prostrations, Captain), 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:pg66357:12:97
# text = There was such respect and ready service on the part of the people—there were such prostrations before the kings of the various islands that Captain Cook accepted the “worship” offered him as the proper respect due to the representative of Great Britain.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
3	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
17	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	prostrations	prostration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
19	before	before	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
27	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	worship	worship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
34	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	iobj	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	43	case	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	fixed	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	representative	representative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	flat	_	_
46	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | such prostrations before the kings of the various islands *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **accept** | past | Captain | the various islands |  |  |  | the worship *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | such prostrations before the kings of the various islands |  | Captain |  |  | as the proper respect; due the representative of Great Britain; offer *property* | 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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