Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 134
April 1st the announcement was made in the morning papers that the United States flag would be lowered at 11 o’clock, and the Hawaiian flag restored as the emblem of the Provisional Government.
Who acts: April, Hawaiian flag · What happens: 1st, make, lower, restore · To what, where: announcement, morning papers, States flag, 11 o’clock
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 (April, Hawaiian flag), 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 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 1st | nsubj |
| 2 | 1st | 1st | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 announcement | det |
| 4 | announcement | announcement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 1st | ccomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 papers | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 papers | det |
| 9 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 papers | compound |
| 10 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 lowered | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 flag | det |
| 13 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 States | amod |
| 14 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 flag | compound |
| 15 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lowered | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 lowered | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 lowered | aux:pass |
| 18 | lowered | lower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 papers | acl:relcl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 o’clock | case |
| 20 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 o’clock | nummod |
| 21 | o’clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lowered | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 restored | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 restored | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 flag | det |
| 25 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 flag | amod |
| 26 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 restored | nsubj |
| 27 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 1st | conj |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 emblem | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 emblem | det |
| 30 | emblem | emblem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 restored | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Government | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Government | det |
| 33 | Provisional | provisional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Government | amod |
| 34 | Government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 emblem | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 1st | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1st | past | April | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | the announcement | the morning papers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | lower | would · passive | the States flag | 11 o’clock | the morning papers obj | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme that=Destination | |||
| 4 | restore | participle | the Hawaiian flag | as the emblem of the Provisional Government | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
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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