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title: Her outspoken speeches, for which the priests did not dare to punish… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Her outspoken speeches, for which the priests did not dare to punish her, were bearing fruit. Who acts: priests, outspoken speeches, manu. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 49

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Her outspoken speeches, for which the priests did not dare to punish her, were bearing fruit.

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**Who acts:** priests, outspoken speeches, manu · **What happens:** not dare, not punish, be, speak · **To what, where:** manu, bearing fruit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (priests, outspoken speeches, manu), 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:pg66357:19:49
# text = Her outspoken speeches, for which the priests did not dare to punish her, were bearing fruit.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	outspoken	outspoken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	speeches	speech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	punish	punish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	bearing	bearing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **dare** | past · do-support | the priests |  |  |  |  | for manu's outspoken speeches | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **punish** | to-infinitive | the priests *not said here* | manu |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past | manu's outspoken speeches | bearing fruit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** |  | manu |  |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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