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title: On Monday morning, July 31, 1843, the admiral issued a proclamation… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: On Monday morning, July 31, 1843, the admiral issued a proclamation restoring the islands to their king, and incidentally mentioning in high terms the work of the American missionaries. Who acts: admiral, proclamation, American missionaries. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Weste
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 77

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On Monday morning, July 31, 1843, the admiral issued a proclamation restoring the islands to their king, and incidentally mentioning in high terms the work of the American missionaries.

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**Who acts:** admiral, proclamation, American missionaries · **What happens:** issue, restore, mention, work · **To what, where:** proclamation, islands, king, high terms

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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 (admiral, proclamation, American missionaries), 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:pg66357:22:77
# text = On Monday morning, July 31, 1843, the admiral issued a proclamation restoring the islands to their king, and incidentally mentioning in high terms the work of the American missionaries.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	31	31	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	1843	1843	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	issued	issue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	restoring	restore	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	incidentally	incidentally	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	mentioning	mention	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:unmarked	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **issue** | past | the admiral | a proclamation |  |  | morning |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location proclamation=Theme |
| 2 | **restore** | gerund | a proclamation *not said here* | the islands | Islands's king |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent island=Theme to king=Recipient |
| 3 | **mention** *speech: other* | gerund | the admiral *not said here* |  |  | high terms  the work of the American missionaries |  | incidentally *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **work** |  | the American missionaries |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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