Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 10
The Irish addition to the flag consisted of St. Patrick’s red cross laid upon St. Andrew’s white cross, and half covering it.
Who acts: Irish addition · What happens: consist, lay, cover · To what, where: red cross, white cross, flag
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 (Irish addition), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 addition | det |
| 2 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 addition | amod |
| 3 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 consisted | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 flag | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flag | det |
| 6 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 addition | nmod |
| 7 | consisted | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cross | case |
| 9 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Patrick | nmod:desc |
| 10 | Patrick | Patrick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 cross | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Patrick | case |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cross | amod |
| 13 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 consisted | obl |
| 14 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 cross | acl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 cross | case |
| 16 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Andrew | nmod:desc |
| 17 | Andrew | Andrew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 cross | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Andrew | case |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cross | amod |
| 20 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laid | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 covering | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 covering | cc |
| 23 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 24 covering | compound |
| 24 | covering | cover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 consisted | advcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 covering | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 consisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | past | the Irish addition to the flag | of Patrick St.'s red cross | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay | participle | Patrick St.'s red cross not said here | Andrew St.'s white cross | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon cross=Destination | ||||
| 3 | cover | gerund | the Irish addition to the flag not said here | flag | half compound | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |
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.
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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