Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 126
This continued until February 1, 1893, when negotiations had progressed so far that United States Minister Stevens felt safe in raising the Stars and Stripes over the government buildings and declaring a protectorate.
Who acts: This, negotiations, Stevens · What happens: continue, progress, feel, raise, declare · To what, where: Stars, government buildings, protectorate
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 (This, negotiations, Stevens), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 continued | nsubj |
| 2 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | until | until | ADP | _ | 4 February | case |
| 4 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 continued | obl |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 February | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 1893 | punct |
| 7 | 1893 | 1893 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 February | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 progressed | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 progressed | advmod |
| 10 | negotiations | negotiation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 progressed | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 progressed | aux |
| 12 | progressed | progress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 continued | conj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 far | advmod |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 progressed | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 felt | mark |
| 16 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 States | amod |
| 17 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 Minister | compound |
| 18 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Stevens | nmod:desc |
| 19 | Stevens | Stevens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 felt | nsubj |
| 20 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 progressed | advcl |
| 21 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 felt | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 23 raising | mark |
| 23 | raising | raise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 felt | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Stars | det |
| 25 | Stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 raising | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Stripes | cc |
| 27 | Stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 Stars | conj |
| 28 | over | over | ADP | _ | 31 buildings | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 buildings | det |
| 30 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 buildings | compound |
| 31 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 raising | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 declaring | cc |
| 33 | declaring | declare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 raising | conj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 protectorate | det |
| 35 | protectorate | protectorate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 declaring | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | This | february | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | progress | past · perfect | negotiations | far property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | Stevens States Minister | safe property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | raise | gerund | Stevens States Minister not said here | the Stars and Stripes | the government buildings | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent star=Theme over building=Destination | |||
| 5 | declare speech: other | gerund | Stevens States Minister not said here | a protectorate | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protectorate=Attribute |
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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