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title: “As for the idler, let the industrious man put him to shame, and sou… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “As for the idler, let the industrious man put him to shame, and sound his name from one end of the country to the other.” Who acts: you, industrious man, man. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The First Constitution, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 78

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“As for the idler, let the industrious man put him to shame, and sound his name from one end of the country to the other.”

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**Who acts:** you, industrious man, man · **What happens:** let, put, shame, sound, name · **To what, where:** industrious man, man, name, one end

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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 (you, industrious man, man), 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:pg66357:21:78
# text = “As for the idler, let the industrious man put him to shame, and sound his name from one end of the country to the other.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	As	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	idler	idler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	industrious	industrious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	shame	shame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sound	sound	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | the industrious man |  |  |  | for the idler | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | the industrious man *not said here* |  | man |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
| 3 | **shame** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the industrious man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **sound** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | man's name |  |  | from one end of the country | to the other | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location name=Theme |
| 5 | **name** *in a quote* |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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