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title: “Though no such law can be at variance with the general spirit of th… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “Though no such law can be at variance with the general spirit of the laws of the nation nor can there be any oppressive law nor one of evil tendency.” Who acts: such law. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The First Constitution, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 91

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“Though no such law can be at variance with the general spirit of the laws of the nation nor can there be any oppressive law nor one of evil tendency.”

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**Who acts:** such law · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** variance, oppressive law

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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 (such law), 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:pg66357:21:91
# text = “Though no such law can be at variance with the general spirit of the laws of the nation nor can there be any oppressive law nor one of evil tendency.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	variance	variance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	26	cc	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
25	oppressive	oppressive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
27	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	28	cc	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	tendency	tendency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | can | no such law |  |  | variance nor any oppressive law |  | with the general spirit of the laws of the nation | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | can | no such law *not said here* | any oppressive law |  | there |  | one of evil tendency *conj* | 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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