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title: It is worthy of notice that the fourth act of these early laws pract… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: It is worthy of notice that the fourth act of these early laws practically recognised the New England system of “local” or “town” government. Who acts: treatment, notice, early laws. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The First Constitution, with its dependency tree and
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 87

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It is worthy of notice that the fourth act of these early laws practically recognised the New England system of “local” or “town” government.

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**Who acts:** treatment, notice, early laws · **What happens:** be, recognise, act · **To what, where:** England system

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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 (treatment, notice, early laws), 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:pg66357:21:87
# text = It is worthy of notice that the fourth act of these early laws practically recognised the New England system of “local” or “town” government.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	practically	practically	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
18	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | treatment |  |  |  |  | of notice; worthy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **recognise** | past | notice | the England system of local or town and government |  |  |  | the fourth act of this early laws *nsubj*; practically *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer system=Stimulus |
| 3 | **act** |  | this early laws |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=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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