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title: In 1779 the coming of Captain Cook changed the course of action and… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1779 the coming of Captain Cook changed the course of action and gave the people new things to think about, until Kamehameha secured white men’s arms and conquered all the islands. Who acts: coming, Kamehameha. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, w
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 261

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In 1779 the coming of Captain Cook changed the course of action and gave the people new things to think about, until Kamehameha secured white men’s arms and conquered all the islands.

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**Who acts:** coming, Kamehameha · **What happens:** come, change, give, think about, secure, conquer · **To what, where:** course, 1779, new things, people, arms, islands

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coming, Kamehameha), 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:pg66357:14:261
# text = In 1779 the coming of Captain Cook changed the course of action and gave the people new things to think about, until Kamehameha secured white men’s arms and conquered all the islands.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1779	1779	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	iobj	_	_
17	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	Kamehameha	Kamehameha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	secured	secure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
26	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
32	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	34	det:predet	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of Captain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of captain=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **change** | past | coming | the course of action |  | 1779 |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | past | coming *not said here* | new things | the people |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient thing=Theme |
| 4 | **think about** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | coming *not said here* | new things *not said here* |  |  |  | about *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **secure** | past | Kamehameha | white men's arms |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition arm=Theme |
| 6 | **conquer** | past | Kamehameha *not said here* | all islands |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Patient |

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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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