Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 107
Its reappearance was the signal of the king’s return.
Who acts: reappearance, government, king · What happens: be, reappear, return · To what, where: signal
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 (reappearance, government, king), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 reappearance | nmod:poss |
| 2 | reappearance | reappearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 signal | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 signal | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 signal | det |
| 5 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 return | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 return | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 signal | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 signal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | government's reappearance | the signal | of the king's return | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reappear | government | nom reappearance «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 3 | return | the king | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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