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title: David Malo, John and Daniel Ii and other pupils of the early mission… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: David Malo, John and Daniel Ii and other pupils of the early missionaries wrote some of the original laws. Who acts: David. 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 35

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David Malo, John and Daniel Ii and other pupils of the early missionaries wrote some of the original laws.

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**Who acts:** David · **What happens:** write · **To what, where:** 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: who acts (David), 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:pg66357:21:35
# text = David Malo, John and Daniel Ii and other pupils of the early missionaries wrote some of the original laws.
1	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
2	Malo	Malo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	Ii	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pupils	pupil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	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 | **write** | past | David and John and Daniel and other pupils of the early missionaries | some of the original 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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