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title: Gov. Adams (Kuakini) secured one of the first copies of these lesson… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Gov. Adams (Kuakini) secured one of the first copies of these lessons “and was quickly master of them.” Who acts: Gov. Adams. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Hawaiian Printing, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 27

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Gov. Adams (Kuakini) secured one of the first copies of these lessons “and was quickly master of them.”

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**Who acts:** Gov. Adams · **What happens:** secure, be, copy · **To what, where:** one, master, lessons · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Gov. Adams), 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:pg66357:20:27
# text = Gov. Adams (Kuakini) secured one of the first copies of these lessons “and was quickly master of them.”
1	Gov.	Gov.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Adams	adam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Kuakini	Kuakini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
6	secured	secure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	copies	copy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **secure** | past | Gov. Adams | one of the first copies of this lessons |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past |  | master |  |  |  | of copies *= copy*; quickly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **copy** |  |  | this lessons |  |  |  |  | nom copy «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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