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title: “Formerly if the people did not go to the work of the king when requ… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “Formerly if the people did not go to the work of the king when required, the punishment was that their houses were set on fire and consumed.” Who acts: people, king. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The First Constitution, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 113

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“Formerly if the people did not go to the work of the king when required, the punishment was that their houses were set on fire and consumed.”

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**Who acts:** people, king · **What happens:** not go, require, set, consume, work · **To what, where:** work, punishment, fire

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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 (people, king), 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:pg66357:21:113
# text = “Formerly if the people did not go to the work of the king when required, the punishment was that their houses were set on fire and consumed.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Formerly	formerly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	consumed	consume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | past · do-support | the people |  |  | the work of the king |  | formerly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **require** *in a quote* | participle | the people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **set** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | the punishment |  | fire |  | people's houses *nsubj:pass* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on fire=Destination |
| 4 | **consume** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **work** *in a quote* |  | the king |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «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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