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title: This is especially noticeable in the enactment of laws concerning ta… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: This is especially noticeable in the enactment of laws concerning taxation. Who acts: This, 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 58

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This is especially noticeable in the enactment of laws concerning taxation.

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**Who acts:** This, laws · **What happens:** be, concern, enact · **To what, where:** enactment, taxation, 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 (This, 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:pg66357:21:58
# text = This is especially noticeable in the enactment of laws concerning taxation.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	noticeable	noticeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	enactment	enactment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	taxation	taxation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | This |  |  | the enactment of laws |  | especially, noticeable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **concern** | gerund | laws *not said here* | taxation |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus taxation=Experiencer |
| 3 | **enact** |  |  | laws |  |  |  |  | nom enactment «act transitive»: of=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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