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title: While the chiefs were awakened by these proof impressions to intelle… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: While the chiefs were awakened by these proof impressions to intellectual desires never before experienced, the work was being pushed of finishing the second “signature” and the complete book of sixteen pages was printed in an edition of 500 copies. Who acts: proof impressions. A sentence of «Hawaii
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 26

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While the chiefs were awakened by these proof impressions to intellectual desires never before experienced, the work was being pushed of finishing the second “signature” and the complete book of sixteen pages was printed in an edition of 500 copies.

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**Who acts:** proof impressions · **What happens:** awaken, push, finish, print · **To what, where:** chiefs, work, second signature, complete book, edition

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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 (proof impressions), 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:pg66357:20:26
# text = While the chiefs were awakened by these proof impressions to intellectual desires never before experienced, the work was being pushed of finishing the second “signature” and the complete book of sixteen pages was printed in an edition of 500 copies.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	proof	proof	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	impressions	impression	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	intellectual	intellectual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	desires	desire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	before	before	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
15	experienced	experienced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
22	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	finishing	finish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	signature	signature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	edition	edition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
43	copies	copy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awaken** | past · passive | this proof impressions to intellectual desires | the chiefs |  |  | never | before *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme |
| 2 | **push** | past · passive |  | the work |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **finish** | gerund |  | the second signature |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality signature=Eventuality |
| 4 | **print** | past · passive |  | the complete book of sixteen pages |  | a edition of 500 copies |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in edition=Destination |

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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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