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title: January 18, ministers and consul-generals from several nations haste… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: January 18, ministers and consul-generals from several nations hastened to hand in their recognition of the new government, and on the 19th English and Japanese ministers practically completed the list. Who acts: 18 ministers, ministers. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervel
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 125

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January 18, ministers and consul-generals from several nations hastened to hand in their recognition of the new government, and on the 19th English and Japanese ministers practically completed the list.

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**Who acts:** 18 ministers, ministers · **What happens:** hasten, hand, complete, recognize · **To what, where:** several nations, recognition, list, 19th English ministers, new government

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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 (18 ministers, ministers), 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:pg66357:22:125
# text = January 18, ministers and consul-generals from several nations hastened to hand in their recognition of the new government, and on the 19th English and Japanese ministers practically completed the list.
1	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
2	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	ministers	minister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	consul	consul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	generals	general	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	hand	hand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	recognition	recognition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
26	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	30	amod	_	_
27	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	ministers	minister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
31	practically	practically	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	completed	complete	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | participle |  | several nations *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hand** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | ministers's recognition of the new government |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **complete** | past | 18 ministers and consul generals from several nations | the list |  | the 19th English ministers |  | practically *property* | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Eventuality |
| 4 | **recognize** |  | ministers *= minister* | the new government |  |  |  |  | nom recognition «state transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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