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title: In the days of peace remember the proverb, ‘When you are on friendly… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In the days of peace remember the proverb, ‘When you are on friendly terms, settle your disputes in a friendly way; when you are at war, you must redress your injuries by violence.’ Who acts: days, you, your. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui the Polynesian, with 
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 22

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In the days of peace remember the proverb, ‘When you are on friendly terms, settle your disputes in a friendly way; when you are at war, you must redress your injuries by violence.’

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**Who acts:** days, you, your · **What happens:** remember, be, settle, redress, dispute, injure · **To what, where:** proverb, friendly terms, disputes, friendly way, war, injuries · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui the Polynesian. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days, you, your), 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:pg66357:2:22
# text = In the days of peace remember the proverb, ‘When you are on friendly terms, settle your disputes in a friendly way; when you are at war, you must redress your injuries by violence.’
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	proverb	proverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	settle	settle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	disputes	dispute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	redress	redress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	parataxis	_	_
35	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	injuries	injury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | present | the days of peace | the proverb |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent proverb=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  | friendly terms |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **settle** | infinitive |  | your disputes |  | a friendly way |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dispute=Theme in way=Location |
| 4 | **is** | present | you |  |  | war |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **redress** | must | you | your injuries |  |  |  | by violence | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent injury=Recipient |
| 6 | **dispute** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom dispute «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **injure** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom injury «state 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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