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title: The Declaration and Constitution owe much of their remarkably clear… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The Declaration and Constitution owe much of their remarkably clear and broad conceptions of the relation of ruler and subject to Mr. Richards. Who acts: Declaration. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The First Constitution, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 24

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The Declaration and Constitution owe much of their remarkably clear and broad conceptions of the relation of ruler and subject to Mr. Richards.

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**Who acts:** Declaration · **What happens:** owe, conceive · **To what, where:** much, relation

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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 (Declaration), 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:pg66357:21:24
# text = The Declaration and Constitution owe much of their remarkably clear and broad conceptions of the relation of ruler and subject to Mr. Richards.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Declaration	Declaration	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Constitution	Constitution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	owe	owe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
9	remarkably	remarkably	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	conceptions	conception	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	relation	relation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:desc	_	_
23	Richards	Richards	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **owe** | present | the Declaration and Constitution | much of Declaration's clear conceptions of the relation of ruler and subject to Richards  Mr. |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent much=Theme |
| 2 | **conceive** |  | Declaration | the relation of ruler and subject to Richards  Mr. |  |  |  |  | nom conception «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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