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title: Accompanying this act compelling idlers to toil there was a clear st… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Accompanying this act compelling idlers to toil there was a clear statement of the strong contrast between the burdens of the time immediately preceding and those after the passage of the new laws. Who acts: Accompanying, time, new laws. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervel
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 104

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Accompanying this act compelling idlers to toil there was a clear statement of the strong contrast between the burdens of the time immediately preceding and those after the passage of the new laws.

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**Who acts:** Accompanying, time, new laws · **What happens:** accompany, compel, toil, be, precede, burden · **To what, where:** act, idlers, clear statement, time

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The First Constitution. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Accompanying, time, new laws), 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:pg66357:21:104
# text = Accompanying this act compelling idlers to toil there was a clear statement of the strong contrast between the burdens of the time immediately preceding and those after the passage of the new laws.
1	Accompanying	accompany	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	compelling	compel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
5	idlers	idler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	toil	toil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	statement	statement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	contrast	contrast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	between	between	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	burdens	burden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	preceding	precede	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	obj	_	_
27	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accompany** | gerund |  | this act |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent act=Theme |
| 2 | **compel** | gerund |  | idlers |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent idler=Patient clause=Result |
| 3 | **toil** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Accompanying | a clear statement |  |  |  | of the strong contrast between the burdens of the time | tree rules |
| 5 | **precede** | gerund | the time *not said here* | the time |  |  | after the passage of the new laws | immediately *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **burden** |  |  | the time |  |  |  |  | nom burden «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **pass** |  | the new laws |  |  |  |  |  | nom passage «act intransitive»: of=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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