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title: These years of religious instruction, with their resultant awakening… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: These years of religious instruction, with their resultant awakening of conscience and yearning for a better life, could not escape a close connection with the contemporaneous demands of civilisation. Who acts: resultant, years, revivals. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westerve
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 7

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These years of religious instruction, with their resultant awakening of conscience and yearning for a better life, could not escape a close connection with the contemporaneous demands of civilisation.

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**Who acts:** resultant, years, revivals · **What happens:** awaken, yearn, not escape, result, demand · **To what, where:** close connection, civilisation

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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 (resultant, years, revivals), 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:pg66357:21:7
# text = These years of religious instruction, with their resultant awakening of conscience and yearning for a better life, could not escape a close connection with the contemporaneous demands of civilisation.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	instruction	instruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	resultant	resultant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	awakening	awaken	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	conscience	conscience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	yearning	yearn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	contemporaneous	contemporaneous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	demands	demand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	civilisation	civilisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awaken** | gerund | revivals's resultant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of conscience | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **yearn** | gerund | revivals's resultant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a better life | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for life=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **escape** | could | this years of religious instruction | a close connection |  |  |  | with the contemporaneous demands of civilisation | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme connection=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **result** |  | revivals *= revival* |  |  |  |  |  | nom resultant «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **demand** |  |  | civilisation |  |  |  |  | nom demand «communication 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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