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title: The Hawaiian Declaration of Rights, issued June 7, 1839, stated firs… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The Hawaiian Declaration of Rights, issued June 7, 1839, stated first the principle upon which the American Declaration of Independence was founded, viz.: Who acts: Hawaiian Declaration. 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 45

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The Hawaiian Declaration of Rights, issued June 7, 1839, stated first the principle upon which the American Declaration of Independence was founded, viz.:

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**Who acts:** Hawaiian Declaration · **What happens:** issue, state, found · **To what, where:** 7, principle, American Declaration

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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 Declaration), 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:pg66357:21:45
# text = The Hawaiian Declaration of Rights, issued June 7, 1839, stated first the principle upon which the American Declaration of Independence was founded, viz.:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Declaration	Declaration	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Rights	Right	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	issued	issue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
8	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	1839	1839	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	stated	state	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	principle	principle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Declaration	Declaration	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Independence	Independence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	viz	viz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.:	.:	SYM	NFP	_	13	discourse	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **issue** | participle | the Hawaiian Declaration of Rights *not said here* | 7  June |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **state** *speech: other* | past | the Hawaiian Declaration of Rights | the principle and viz |  |  |  | first *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent principle=Topic |
| 3 | **found** | past · passive |  | the American Declaration of Independence |  |  |  | upon the principle and viz | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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