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title: There were, of course, exemptions for infirmity, large families and… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: There were, of course, exemptions for infirmity, large families and other good reasons. Who acts: exemptions. 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 75

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There were, of course, exemptions for infirmity, large families and other good reasons.

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**Who acts:** exemptions · **What happens:** be

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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 (exemptions), 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:pg66357:21:75
# text = There were, of course, exemptions for infirmity, large families and other good reasons.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	exemptions	exemption	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	infirmity	infirmity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | exemptions for infirmity and large families and other good reasons |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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