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title: These laws and the Constitution and Declaration of Rights were first… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: These laws and the Constitution and Declaration of Rights were first published in English in 1842. 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 23

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These laws and the Constitution and Declaration of Rights were first published in English in 1842.

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**What happens:** publish · **To what, where:** laws, English

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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: 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:pg66357:21:23
# text = These laws and the Constitution and Declaration of Rights were first published in English in 1842.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Constitution	Constitution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Declaration	Declaration	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Rights	Right	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	advmod	_	_
12	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1842	1842	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **publish** | past · passive |  | this laws  the Constitution and Declaration of Rights |  | English |  | in 1842; first *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |

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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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