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title: That part which simply disapproves of certain evils is instruction. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: That part which simply disapproves of certain evils is instruction. Who acts: part. 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 82

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That part which simply disapproves of certain evils is instruction.

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**Who acts:** part · **What happens:** disapprove, be · **To what, where:** instruction

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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 (part), 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:pg66357:21:82
# text = That part which simply disapproves of certain evils is instruction.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	disapproves	disapprove	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	evils	evil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	instruction	instruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disapprove** | present | that part |  |  |  |  | of certain evils; simply *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that part | instruction |  |  |  |  | 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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