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title: This is in brief the situation immediately preceding and accompanyin… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: This is in brief the situation immediately preceding and accompanying the peaceable and yet irreclaimable establishment of constitutional rights and privileges in Hawaii. Who acts: This. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The First Constitution, with its dependency tree
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 37

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This is in brief the situation immediately preceding and accompanying the peaceable and yet irreclaimable establishment of constitutional rights and privileges in Hawaii.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be, accompany, establish · **To what, where:** brief, peaceable establishment, constitutional rights

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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 (This), 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:pg66357:21:37
# text = This is in brief the situation immediately preceding and accompanying the peaceable and yet irreclaimable establishment of constitutional rights and privileges in Hawaii.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	brief	brief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	situation	situation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	preceding	precede	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	accompanying	accompany	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
12	peaceable	peaceable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	irreclaimable	irreclaimable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
16	establishment	establishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	constitutional	constitutional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	privileges	privilege	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | This |  |  | brief |  | the situation *nsubj*; immediately, precede *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **accompany** | gerund | This *not said here* | the peaceable establishment of constitutional rights in Hawaii and privileges |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent establishment=Theme |
| 3 | **establish** |  |  | constitutional rights in Hawaii and privileges |  |  |  |  | nom establishment «act transitive»: 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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