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title: John Young, Don Marin and Isaac Davis were notable exceptions in a f… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: John Young, Don Marin and Isaac Davis were notable exceptions in a few things, but the fact remains that no earnest effort was made by any one to help the natives intellectually until the missionaries came. Who acts: John, fact, one, missionaries. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 4

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John Young, Don Marin and Isaac Davis were notable exceptions in a few things, but the fact remains that no earnest effort was made by any one to help the natives intellectually until the missionaries came.

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**Who acts:** John, fact, one, missionaries · **What happens:** be, remain, make, help, come · **To what, where:** notable exceptions, few things, earnest effort, natives

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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 (John, fact, one, 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:pg66357:20:4
# text = John Young, Don Marin and Isaac Davis were notable exceptions in a few things, but the fact remains that no earnest effort was made by any one to help the natives intellectually until the missionaries came.
1	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	Young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	Marin	Marin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	Davis	Davis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	notable	notable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	exceptions	exception	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
23	earnest	earn	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
24	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	ccomp	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	natives	native	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	intellectually	intellectually	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
35	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
38	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | John and Don and Isaac | notable exceptions |  | a few things |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remain** | present | the fact |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past · passive | any one | no earnest effort |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |
| 4 | **help** | to-infinitive | any one *not said here* | the natives |  |  |  | intellectually *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent native=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **come** | past | the missionaries |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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