Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 104
Sometimes it floated proudly over fort and palace, while salutes were fired from men-of-war entering the harbour.
Who acts: government, war · What happens: float, fire, enter · To what, where: fort, salutes, harbour
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 (government, war), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 floated | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 floated | nsubj |
| 3 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 3 floated | advmod |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 fort | case |
| 6 | fort | fort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 floated | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 palace | cc |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fort | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fired | punct |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 fired | mark |
| 11 | salutes | salute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fired | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fired | aux:pass |
| 13 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 floated | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 men | case |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fired | obl |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 war | punct |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 war | case |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 of | punct |
| 19 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 men | nmod |
| 20 | entering | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 war | acl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 harbour | det |
| 22 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 entering | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 floated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | past | government | fort and palace | proudly, sometimes property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over fort=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | fire | past · passive | salutes | from men of war | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from man=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | enter | gerund | war not said here | the harbour | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme harbour=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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