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title: Monday, January 16, over 1,300 citizens gathered in the armory and a… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Monday, January 16, over 1,300 citizens gathered in the armory and authorised this committee of public safety to take such steps as might be necessary. Who acts: 1,300 citizens. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 118

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Monday, January 16, over 1,300 citizens gathered in the armory and authorised this committee of public safety to take such steps as might be necessary.

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**Who acts:** 1,300 citizens · **What happens:** gather, authorise, take, be · **To what, where:** armory, committee, such steps

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (1,300 citizens), 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:pg66357:22:118
# text = Monday, January 16, over 1,300 citizens gathered in the armory and authorised this committee of public safety to take such steps as might be necessary.
1	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	1,300	1,300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	armory	armory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	authorised	authorise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	committee	committee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past | 1,300 citizens |  |  | the armory | monday |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **authorise** | participle | 1,300 citizens *not said here* | this committee of public safety |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive | 1,300 citizens *not said here* | such steps |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | might | 1,300 citizens *not said here* |  |  |  |  | necessary *property* | 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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