---
title: These changes are worth noting because of their historical bearing u… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: These changes are worth noting because of their historical bearing upon the past and present condition of the native Hawaiians. Who acts: changes. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The First Constitution, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/21/105/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Historical Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/) / [The First Constitution](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/21/) / 105

# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 105

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
These changes are worth noting because of their historical bearing upon the past and present condition of the native Hawaiians.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** changes · **What happens:** be, note, condition · **To what, where:** native Hawaiians

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (changes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:21:105
# text = These changes are worth noting because of their historical bearing upon the past and present condition of the native Hawaiians.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	noting	note	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bearing	bearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Hawaiians	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | this changes |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **note** | gerund | this changes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | because changes's historical bearing; upon the past and present condition of the native Hawaiians | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **condition** |  |  | the native Hawaiians |  |  |  |  | nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/21/104/)
- next →: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/21/106/)
- ↑ back to [The First Constitution](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/21/)