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title: The poll tax could be paid in arrowroot, cotton, sugar or anything w… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The poll tax could be paid in arrowroot, cotton, sugar or anything which had a specific money value. 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 62

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The poll tax could be paid in arrowroot, cotton, sugar or anything which had a specific money value.

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**What happens:** pay, have · **To what, where:** poll tax, arrowroot, specific money value

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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: 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:pg66357:21:62
# text = The poll tax could be paid in arrowroot, cotton, sugar or anything which had a specific money value.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poll	poll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	arrowroot	arrowroot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	conj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	specific	specific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | could · passive |  | the poll tax |  | arrowroot and cotton and sugar  anything |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 2 | **have** | past |  | a specific money value |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent value=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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