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title: The common people were not taken very much into account before the i… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The common people were not taken very much into account before the influence of Christianity was felt by both king and chiefs. Who acts: king. 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 60

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The common people were not taken very much into account before the influence of Christianity was felt by both king and chiefs.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** not take, feel · **To what, where:** common people, account, influence

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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 (king), 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:pg66357:21:60
# text = The common people were not taken very much into account before the influence of Christianity was felt by both king and chiefs.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	felt	feel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **take** | past · passive |  | the common people |  | account |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into account=Destination |
| 2 | **feel** | past · passive | both king and chiefs | the influence of Christianity |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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