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title: A controversy with Roman Catholic priests, much as it was deprecated… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: A controversy with Roman Catholic priests, much as it was deprecated by the missionaries, was nevertheless a very useful factor in making the king and chiefs realise that they must be better prepared to deal with foreign interference. Who acts: missionaries, controversy, chiefs. A sentence of «Hawai
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 11

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A controversy with Roman Catholic priests, much as it was deprecated by the missionaries, was nevertheless a very useful factor in making the king and chiefs realise that they must be better prepared to deal with foreign interference.

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**Who acts:** missionaries, controversy, chiefs · **What happens:** deprecate, be, make, realise, deal · **To what, where:** controversy, useful factor, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (missionaries, controversy, chiefs), 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:pg66357:21:11
# text = A controversy with Roman Catholic priests, much as it was deprecated by the missionaries, was nevertheless a very useful factor in making the king and chiefs realise that they must be better prepared to deal with foreign interference.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	controversy	controversy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Catholic	catholic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	deprecated	deprecate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
18	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	factor	factor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
23	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	realise	realise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
32	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
34	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	35	advmod	_	_
35	prepared	prepared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	ccomp	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	interference	interference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deprecate** | past · passive | the missionaries | controversy |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | a controversy with Roman Catholic priests | a useful factor |  |  |  | nevertheless *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | a controversy with Roman Catholic priests *not said here* | the king |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset king=Product |
| 4 | **realise** | present | chiefs |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | must | chiefs *= chief* |  |  |  |  | prepared, well *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **deal** | to-infinitive | chiefs *= chief* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with foreign interference | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with interference=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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