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title: The foreign consuls assisted and even wrote some of the earlier laws. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The foreign consuls assisted and even wrote some of the earlier laws. 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 32

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The foreign consuls assisted and even wrote some of the earlier laws.

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**What happens:** assist, write · **To what, where:** foreign consuls, some

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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:pg66357:21:32
# text = The foreign consuls assisted and even wrote some of the earlier laws.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	consuls	consul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	assisted	assist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	earlier	early	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assist** | participle · passive |  | the foreign consuls |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **write** | past |  | some of the earlier laws |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=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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