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title: Between the years 1835–1840 there was a culmination of several force… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Between the years 1835–1840 there was a culmination of several forces, each one important in itself and all uniting to bring about the exceedingly interesting series of events which marked the Hawaiian history of that time. Who acts: culmination, exceedingly interesting series. A sentence of «Hawaii
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 2

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Between the years 1835–1840 there was a culmination of several forces, each one important in itself and all uniting to bring about the exceedingly interesting series of events which marked the Hawaiian history of that time.

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**Who acts:** culmination, exceedingly interesting series · **What happens:** be, unite, bring, mark · **To what, where:** Hawaiian history

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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 (culmination, exceedingly interesting series), 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:pg66357:21:2
# text = Between the years 1835–1840 there was a culmination of several forces, each one important in itself and all uniting to bring about the exceedingly interesting series of events which marked the Hawaiian history of that time.
1	Between	between	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	1835	1835	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	1840	1840	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	culmination	culmination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
17	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	advmod	_	_
22	uniting	unite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	exceedingly	exceedingly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
39	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a culmination of several forces |  |  | there | year |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **unite** | gerund | a culmination of several forces *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | to-infinitive | a culmination of several forces *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the exceedingly interesting series of events | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mark** | past | the exceedingly interesting series of events | the Hawaiian history of that time |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent history=Destination |

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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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