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title: The work of translating the Bible into the Hawaiian language was com… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The work of translating the Bible into the Hawaiian language was completed and the book published in 1839. Who acts: work, book. 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 4

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The work of translating the Bible into the Hawaiian language was completed and the book published in 1839.

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**Who acts:** work, book · **What happens:** translate, complete, publish · **To what, where:** Bible, Hawaiian language, work, 1839

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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 (work, book), 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:pg66357:21:4
# text = The work of translating the Bible into the Hawaiian language was completed and the book published in 1839.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	translating	translate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	completed	complete	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1839	1839	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **translate** | gerund | the work *not said here* | the Bible |  |  |  | into the Hawaiian language *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent bible=Patient into language=Result |
| 2 | **complete** | past · passive |  | the work |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **publish** | participle | the book |  |  | 1839 |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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