Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 127

This was the fourth time that a far-away representative of a foreign power had felt certain that his annexation of Hawaii would be joyfully received by his home government.

Who acts: This, home government · What happens: be, feel, receive · To what, where: fourth time, representative, annexation

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, home 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 time	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 time	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 felt	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 representative	det
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 away	advmod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 far	punct
10	away	away	ADV	_	11 representative	advmod
11	representative	representative	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 felt	nsubj:pass
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 power	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 power	det
14	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 power	amod
15	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 representative	nmod
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 felt	aux
17	felt	feel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 time	acl:relcl
18	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 felt	xcomp
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 received	mark
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 annexation	nmod:poss
21	annexation	annexation	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 received	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Hawaii	case
23	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 annexation	nmod
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 received	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 received	aux:pass
26	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	27 received	advmod
27	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 felt	advcl
28	by	by	ADP	_	31 government	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 government	nmod:poss
30	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 government	compound
31	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 received	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	This	the fourth time			tree rules
2	feel	past · perfect · passive		a representative of a foreign power	the fourth time	certain property	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme that=Eventuality
3	receive	would · passive	Stevens's home government	Stevens's annexation of Hawaii		joyfully property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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 127

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 127