---
title: The fact must be recognised that before the adoption of this Constit… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The fact must be recognised that before the adoption of this Constitution under the influence of the American missionaries the common people never owned any land or had any especial rights. Who acts: common people. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The First Constituti
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/21/114/)

<!-- 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/) / 114

# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 114

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The fact must be recognised that before the adoption of this Constitution under the influence of the American missionaries the common people never owned any land or had any especial rights.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** common people · **What happens:** recognise, not own, have, adopt · **To what, where:** fact, land, especial rights, Constitution, influence

<!-- .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 (common people), 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:pg66357:21:114
# text = The fact must be recognised that before the adoption of this Constitution under the influence of the American missionaries the common people never owned any land or had any especial rights.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	adoption	adoption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	Constitution	Constitution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
25	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
29	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
30	especial	especial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognise** | must · passive |  | the fact |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **own** | past | the common people | any land |  |  | before the adoption of this Constitution under the influence of the American missionaries |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot land=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | the common people *not said here* | any especial rights |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient |
| 4 | **adopt** |  |  | this Constitution |  | the influence of the American missionaries |  |  | nom adoption «act transitive»: of=patient under=place |

<!-- .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 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/21/113/)
- next →: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/21/115/)
- ↑ back to [The First Constitution](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/21/)