Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 135
For the brief space of almost two months the Stars and Stripes had floated over Hawaii.
What happens: float · To what, where: Stars, Hawaii
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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 space | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 space | det |
| 3 | brief | brief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 space | amod |
| 4 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 floated | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 months | case |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 7 two | advmod |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 months | nummod |
| 8 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 space | nmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Stars | det |
| 10 | Stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 floated | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Stripes | cc |
| 12 | Stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Stars | conj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 floated | aux |
| 14 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 Hawaii | case |
| 16 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 floated | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 floated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | past · perfect · passive | the Stars and Stripes | Hawaii | for the brief space of two months | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme over hawaii=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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