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title: “That God has bestowed certain rights alike on all men, and all chie… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “That God has bestowed certain rights alike on all men, and all chiefs, and on all people of all lands.” Who acts: God. 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 46

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“That God has bestowed certain rights alike on all men, and all chiefs, and on all people of all lands.”

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** bestow · **To what, where:** certain 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 (God), 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:pg66357:21:46
# text = “That God has bestowed certain rights alike on all men, and all chiefs, and on all people of all lands.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	bestowed	bestow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	alike	alike	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bestow** *in a quote* | present · perfect | that God | certain rights |  |  |  | on all men and all chiefs; on all people of all lands; alike *property* | tree rules |

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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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