Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 13
The second Union Jack was the second flag to float authoritatively over the Hawaiian Islands.
Who acts: second Union Jack · What happens: be, float · To what, where: second flag, Hawaiian Islands
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 (second Union Jack), 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 | 4 Jack | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 Jack | amod |
| 3 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Jack | compound |
| 4 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 flag | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flag | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flag | det |
| 7 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 flag | amod |
| 8 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 float | mark |
| 10 | float | float | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 flag | acl |
| 11 | authoritatively | authoritatively | ADV | _ | 10 float | advmod |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 Islands | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Islands | det |
| 14 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Islands | compound |
| 15 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 float | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flag | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the second Union Jack | the second flag | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | float | to-infinitive | the Hawaiian Islands | authoritatively property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over island=Trajectory |
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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