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title: After reiterating the Declaration of Rights the king defines the leg… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: After reiterating the Declaration of Rights the king defines the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government and establishes the legislature and bestows upon it the power of enacting laws. Who acts: power. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The First Cons
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 54

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After reiterating the Declaration of Rights the king defines the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government and establishes the legislature and bestows upon it the power of enacting laws.

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**Who acts:** power · **What happens:** reiterate, define, establish, bestow, enact · **To what, where:** Declaration, legislative branches, legislature, power, laws

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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 (power), 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:pg66357:21:54
# text = After reiterating the Declaration of Rights the king defines the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government and establishes the legislature and bestows upon it the power of enacting laws.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	reiterating	reiterate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Declaration	Declaration	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Rights	Right	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
9	defines	define	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
11	legislative	legislative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	executive	executive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	judicial	judicial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
16	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	establishes	establish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	legislature	legislature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	bestows	bestow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	enacting	enact	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
31	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reiterate** *speech: other* | gerund |  | the Declaration of Rights |  |  |  | the king *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **define** | present |  | the legislative branches of government |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme |
| 3 | **establish** | present |  | the legislature |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent legislature=Patient |
| 4 | **bestow** | present |  | the power |  |  |  | upon legislature | tree rules |
| 5 | **enact** | gerund | the power *not said here* | laws |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=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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