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title: In the future no man in my kingdom shall have the right to make excu… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In the future no man in my kingdom shall have the right to make excursions for robbery without punishment, be he chief or priest. Who acts: man, right. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 198

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In the future no man in my kingdom shall have the right to make excursions for robbery without punishment, be he chief or priest.

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**Who acts:** man, right · **What happens:** have, make, be · **To what, where:** right, future, excursions

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, right), 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:pg66357:18:198
# text = In the future no man in my kingdom shall have the right to make excursions for robbery without punishment, be he chief or priest.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
15	excursions	excursion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	robbery	robbery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	without	without	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	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 | **have** | shall | no man in my kingdom | the right |  | the future |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | the right *not said here* | excursions |  |  |  | for robbery; without punishment | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent excursion=Product for robbery=Asset |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | man |  |  |  |  | priest *conj*; chief *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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