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title: This was to apply especially to any community’s desire concerning fe… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: This was to apply especially to any community’s desire concerning fences, animals at large, and roads. Who acts: This, community. 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 90

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This was to apply especially to any community’s desire concerning fences, animals at large, and roads.

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**Who acts:** This, community · **What happens:** be, desire

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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 (This, community), 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:pg66357:21:90
# text = This was to apply especially to any community’s desire concerning fences, animals at large, and roads.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	apply	apply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	concerning	concerning	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fences	fence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | This |  |  |  |  | to any community's desire and concerning fences and animals at large and roads; apply *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **desire** |  | any community |  |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling 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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