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title: This then is the outline of the incidents which changed a king into… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: This then is the outline of the incidents which changed a king into a self-respecting and somewhat law-abiding citizen. Who acts: This, outline. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 9

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This then is the outline of the incidents which changed a king into a self-respecting and somewhat law-abiding citizen.

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**Who acts:** This, outline · **What happens:** be, change, respect, abide · **To what, where:** outline, king, citizen

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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 (This, outline), 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:pg66357:18:9
# text = This then is the outline of the incidents which changed a king into a self-respecting and somewhat law-abiding citizen.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	outline	outline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	respecting	respect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	abiding	abide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
23	citizen	citizen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | the outline |  |  | then | of the incidents | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | past | the outline | a king |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient |
| 3 | **respect** | gerund | the outline *not said here* |  |  |  |  | self *compound* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **abide** | gerund | the outline *not said here* | citizen |  |  |  | law *compound*; somewhat *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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