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title: As surely as the sunlight follows the morning star so certainly came… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: As surely as the sunlight follows the morning star so certainly came the provision for a House of Nobles representing the chiefs and a House of Representatives representing the people. Who acts: sunlight, provision, Representatives. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Th
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 52

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As surely as the sunlight follows the morning star so certainly came the provision for a House of Nobles representing the chiefs and a House of Representatives representing the people.

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**Who acts:** sunlight, provision, Representatives · **What happens:** follow, come, represent · **To what, where:** morning star, chiefs, people

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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 (sunlight, provision, Representatives), 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:pg66357:21:52
# text = As surely as the sunlight follows the morning star so certainly came the provision for a House of Nobles representing the chiefs and a House of Representatives representing the people.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	6	cc	_	_
2	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	provision	provision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Nobles	Noble	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	representing	represent	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Representatives	Representative	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	representing	represent	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | present | the sunlight | the morning star |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the provision for a House of Nobles |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **represent** | gerund | the provision for a House of Nobles *not said here* | the chiefs and a House of Representatives |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot chief=Theme |
| 4 | **represent** | gerund | Representatives *not said here* | the people |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot people=Theme |

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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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