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title: In England, King George was calling upon Parliament for advice and f… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In England, King George was calling upon Parliament for advice and funds wherewith to subdue the blood brothers in America. Who acts: George. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 52

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In England, King George was calling upon Parliament for advice and funds wherewith to subdue the blood brothers in America.

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**Who acts:** George · **What happens:** call, fund, subdue · **To what, where:** England, blood brothers, America · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (George), 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:pg66357:14:52
# text = In England, King George was calling upon Parliament for advice and funds wherewith to subdue the blood brothers in America.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	funds	fund	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	wherewith	wherewith	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	subdue	subdue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · progressive | George  King |  |  | England |  | upon Parliament; for advice | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for advice=Recipient |
| 2 | **fund** | present | George  King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **subdue** | to-infinitive | George  King *not said here* | the blood brothers |  | America |  | wherewith *property* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=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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