Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 105
Sometimes it hung at half mast over the palace while the body of some member of the royal family or some one of high chief blood lay in state.
Who acts: government, body · What happens: hang, lay · To what, where: half mast, state
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, body), 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 hung | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hung | nsubj |
| 3 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 mast | case |
| 5 | half | half | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 6 mast | amod |
| 6 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obl |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obl |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 lay | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 body | det |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lay | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 member | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 member | det |
| 15 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 body | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 family | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 family | det |
| 18 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 family | amod |
| 19 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 member | nmod |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 one | cc |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 one | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 family | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 blood | case |
| 24 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 blood | amod |
| 25 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 blood | compound |
| 26 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 one | nmod |
| 27 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hung | advcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 state | case |
| 29 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lay | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | government | half mast | over the palace; sometimes property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at mast=Location | |||
| 2 | lay | present | the body of some member of the royal family or some one of high chief blood | state | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in state=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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