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title: Five prominent men went to Washington, empowered to make a treaty of… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Five prominent men went to Washington, empowered to make a treaty of annexation with the United States. Who acts: Five prominent men. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 129

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Five prominent men went to Washington, empowered to make a treaty of annexation with the United States.

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**Who acts:** Five prominent men · **What happens:** go, empower, make · **To what, where:** Washington, treaty

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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 (Five prominent men), 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:pg66357:22:129
# text = Five prominent men went to Washington, empowered to make a treaty of annexation with the United States.
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	prominent	prominent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Washington	Washington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	empowered	empower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	treaty	treaty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	annexation	annexation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Five prominent men |  |  | Washington |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to washington=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **empower** | participle | Five prominent men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | Five prominent men *not said here* | a treaty of annexation with the United States |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset treaty=Product |

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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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