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title: The laws which were passed after this Constitution was promulgated a… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The laws which were passed after this Constitution was promulgated are both curious and instructive. Who acts: laws. 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 56

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The laws which were passed after this Constitution was promulgated are both curious and instructive.

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**Who acts:** laws · **What happens:** pass, promulgate, be · **To what, where:** laws, Constitution

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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 (laws), 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:pg66357:21:56
# text = The laws which were passed after this Constitution was promulgated are both curious and instructive.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	Constitution	Constitution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	promulgated	promulgate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	both	both	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	instructive	instructive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · passive |  | the laws |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 2 | **promulgate** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | this Constitution |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | the laws |  |  |  |  | both, curious *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the laws *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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