Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 12

The name “Jack” is said to have come from the red cross on the “jacque”—the coat of mail or outer coat of the soldiers of England.

What happens: say, come · To what, where: name, red cross · Speech: someone speaks here

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: 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	2 name	det
2	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj:pass
3	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 Jack	punct
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 name	appos
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 Jack	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	aux:pass
7	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	10 come	mark
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 come	aux
10	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 said	xcomp
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 cross	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cross	det
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cross	amod
14	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 jacque	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 jacque	det
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 jacque	punct
18	jacque	jacque	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cross	nmod
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 jacque	punct
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	22 coat	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 coat	det
22	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 jacque	appos
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 mail	case
24	mail	mail	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 coat	nmod
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 coat	cc
26	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 coat	amod
27	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 coat	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 soldiers	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 soldiers	det
30	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 coat	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 England	case
32	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 soldiers	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		the name					tree rules
2	come	to-infinitive · perfect				the red cross on the jacque			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from cross=Initial_Location

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 12