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title: The Hawaiian Magna Charta, like that of King John Lackland, was irre… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The Hawaiian Magna Charta, like that of King John Lackland, was irrevocable, because, like the great charter of England, it was a step in the evolution of human liberty. Who acts: Hawaiian Magna, Magna, human liberty. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The First Constit
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 42

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The Hawaiian Magna Charta, like that of King John Lackland, was irrevocable, because, like the great charter of England, it was a step in the evolution of human liberty.

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**Who acts:** Hawaiian Magna, Magna, human liberty · **What happens:** be, charter, evolve · **To what, where:** step, evolution, England

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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 (Hawaiian Magna, Magna, human liberty), 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:pg66357:21:42
# text = The Hawaiian Magna Charta, like that of King John Lackland, was irrevocable, because, like the great charter of England, it was a step in the evolution of human liberty.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Magna	Magna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	Charta	Charta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	Lackland	Lackland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	irrevocable	irrevocable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	charter	charter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	evolution	evolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	liberty	liberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Hawaiian Magna like that of John  King |  |  |  |  | the great charter of England *conj*; irrevocable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Magna | a step |  | the evolution of human liberty |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **charter** |  |  | England |  |  |  |  | nom charter «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **evolve** |  | human liberty |  |  |  |  |  | nom evolution «process intransitive»: of=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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