Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 108
It floated over ministers’ and consuls’ offices in different parts of the world and fulfilled its modest duty as the representative of one of “the little kings.”
Who acts: government · What happens: float, fulfil · To what, where: ministers, modest duty
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), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 floated | nsubj |
| 2 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 ministers | case |
| 4 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 floated | obl |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 floated | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 offices | cc |
| 7 | consuls | consul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 offices | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 7 consuls | case |
| 9 | offices | office | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 floated | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 parts | case |
| 11 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 parts | amod |
| 12 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 offices | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 parts | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fulfilled | cc |
| 17 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 floated | conj |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 duty | nmod:poss |
| 19 | modest | modest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 duty | amod |
| 20 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fulfilled | obj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 representative | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 representative | det |
| 23 | representative | representative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fulfilled | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 one | case |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 representative | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 kings | case |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 kings | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 kings | det |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 kings | amod |
| 30 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 one | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 floated | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 floated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | past | government | ministers | consuls's offices in different parts of the world conj | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over minister=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | fulfil | past | government not said here | government's modest duty | as the representative of one of the little kings | tree rules |
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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