Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 137
It was a curious crowd—Orientals, Europeans, Africans and Americans—mingling together.
Who acts: flag, curious crowd · What happens: be, mingle · To what, where: curious crowd
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 (flag, curious crowd), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 crowd | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 crowd | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 crowd | det |
| 4 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 crowd | amod |
| 5 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Orientals | punct |
| 7 | Orientals | Oriental | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 crowd | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Europeans | punct |
| 9 | Europeans | European | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 Orientals | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Africans | punct |
| 11 | Africans | African | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 Orientals | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Americans | cc |
| 13 | Americans | American | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 Orientals | conj |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 mingling | punct |
| 15 | mingling | mingle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 crowd | acl |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 mingling | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 crowd | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | flag | a curious crowd | Orientals and Europeans and Africans and Americans nmod | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mingle | gerund | a curious crowd not said here | together property | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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