Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 138
The Stars and Stripes slipped down the rattling lines from the flagstaff when the bugle call was sounded.
Who acts: Stars · What happens: slip down, sound · To what, where: rattling lines, bugle call
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 (Stars), 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 | 2 Stars | det |
| 2 | Stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 slipped | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Stripes | cc |
| 4 | Stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Stars | conj |
| 5 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 slipped | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lines | det |
| 8 | rattling | rattling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lines | compound |
| 9 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 slipped | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 flagstaff | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flagstaff | det |
| 12 | flagstaff | flagstaff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lines | nmod |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 sounded | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 call | det |
| 15 | bugle | bugle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 call | compound |
| 16 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sounded | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sounded | aux:pass |
| 18 | sounded | sound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 flagstaff | acl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip down | past | the Stars and Stripes | the rattling lines | from the flagstaff | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent line=Patient from flagstaff=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | sound | past · passive | the bugle call | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: 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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