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title: As soon as the missionaries were sure of the orthography and pronunc… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as the missionaries were sure of the orthography and pronunciation of a number of words they prepared a primer or spelling book to be printed for the schools they were carrying on. Who acts: missionaries. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Hawaiian Printin
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 19

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As soon as the missionaries were sure of the orthography and pronunciation of a number of words they prepared a primer or spelling book to be printed for the schools they were carrying on.

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**Who acts:** missionaries · **What happens:** be, prepare, print, carry on · **To what, where:** primer, schools

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Hawaiian Printing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (missionaries), 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:pg66357:20:19
# text = As soon as the missionaries were sure of the orthography and pronunciation of a number of words they prepared a primer or spelling book to be printed for the schools they were carrying on.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	orthography	orthography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	pronunciation	pronunciation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	primer	primer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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** | past | the missionaries |  |  |  |  | of the orthography of a number of words and pronunciation; soon, sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **prepare** | past | missionaries *= missionary* | a primer or spelling book |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent primer=Patient |
| 3 | **print** | to-infinitive · passive | missionaries *= missionary* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the schools | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **carry on** | past · progressive | missionaries *= missionary* | the schools *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent school=Theme |

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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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