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title: While the man who was lazy and idle one day was fined two days’ extr… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: While the man who was lazy and idle one day was fined two days’ extra labour. Who acts: man, two days. 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 74

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While the man who was lazy and idle one day was fined two days’ extra labour.

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**Who acts:** man, two days · **What happens:** be, fine, labour · **To what, where:** man

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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 (man, two days), 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:pg66357:21:74
# text = While the man who was lazy and idle one day was fined two days’ extra labour.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	fined	fine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the man |  |  |  |  | lazy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the man *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fine** | past · passive |  | the man |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **labour** |  | two days |  |  |  |  |  | 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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