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title: Schools and churches and the first newspapers published in the Pacif… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Schools and churches and the first newspapers published in the Pacific Ocean were all enforcing the demand for better government. Who acts: Schools. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The First Constitution, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 13

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Schools and churches and the first newspapers published in the Pacific Ocean were all enforcing the demand for better government.

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**Who acts:** Schools · **What happens:** publish, enforce · **To what, where:** first newspapers, Pacific Ocean, demand

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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 (Schools), 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:pg66357:21:13
# text = Schools and churches and the first newspapers published in the Pacific Ocean were all enforcing the demand for better government.
1	Schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	enforcing	enforce	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	demand	demand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **publish** | participle |  | the first newspapers *not said here* |  | the Pacific Ocean |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **enforce** | past · progressive | Schools and churches and the first newspapers | the demand |  |  |  | for better government; all *property* | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demand=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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