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title: The power of the king and chiefs up to the time of their freely givi… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The power of the king and chiefs up to the time of their freely giving this constitution and new set of laws was practically unlimited. Who acts: power, people, constitution. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The First Constitution, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 115

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The power of the king and chiefs up to the time of their freely giving this constitution and new set of laws was practically unlimited.

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**Who acts:** power, people, constitution · **What happens:** chief up, give, be · **To what, where:** 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 (power, people, constitution), 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:pg66357:21:115
# text = The power of the king and chiefs up to the time of their freely giving this constitution and new set of laws was practically unlimited.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	chiefs	chief	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	practically	practically	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	unlimited	unlimited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chief up** | present | the power of the king |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | gerund | people | the time *not said here* |  |  |  | freely *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | this constitution and new set of laws |  |  |  |  | practically, unlimited *property* | tree rules |

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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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