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title: The entire Bible was completed and “the finishing sheet was struck o… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The entire Bible was completed and “the finishing sheet was struck off May 10, 1839.” 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 55

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The entire Bible was completed and “the finishing sheet was struck off May 10, 1839.”

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**What happens:** complete, strike off · **To what, where:** entire Bible, finishing sheet

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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: 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:pg66357:20:55
# text = The entire Bible was completed and “the finishing sheet was struck off May 10, 1839.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	completed	complete	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	finishing	finishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	sheet	sheet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
15	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	1839	1839	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **complete** | past · passive |  | the entire Bible |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **strike off** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | the finishing sheet |  |  |  | 10  May *obl* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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