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title: The first printed Bible passage was in a revised spelling book publi… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The first printed Bible passage was in a revised spelling book published April, 1825. Who acts: first printed Bible passage. 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 45

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The first printed Bible passage was in a revised spelling book published April, 1825.

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**Who acts:** first printed Bible passage · **What happens:** print, revise, be, publish · **To what, where:** revised spelling book

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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 (first printed Bible passage), 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:pg66357:20:45
# text = The first printed Bible passage was in a revised spelling book published April, 1825.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
3	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	revised	revise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
10	spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	1825	1825	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **print** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **revise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the first printed Bible passage |  |  | a revised spelling book |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **publish** | participle |  | a revised spelling book *not said here* |  |  | april |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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