Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 139
“There was another gleam of colour and the Hawaiian flag crawled up the now taut ropes and shook itself free, its blue, white and crimson bars floating in their accustomed place.
Who acts: gleam, Hawaiian flag, blue bars · What happens: be, crawl up, shake, float · To what, where: taut ropes, flag, accustomed place
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 (gleam, Hawaiian flag, blue bars), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 gleam | det |
| 5 | gleam | gleam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 colour | case |
| 7 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gleam | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 flag | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 flag | det |
| 10 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 flag | amod |
| 11 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gleam | conj |
| 12 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 flag | acl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 crawled | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ropes | det |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 taut | advmod |
| 16 | taut | taut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ropes | amod |
| 17 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 crawled | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 shook | cc |
| 19 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 crawled | conj |
| 20 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 shook | obj |
| 21 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shook | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 bars | punct |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 bars | nmod:poss |
| 24 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bars | amod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 white | punct |
| 26 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 blue | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 crimson | cc |
| 28 | crimson | crimson | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 blue | conj |
| 29 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 free | obl |
| 30 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 bars | acl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 place | case |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 place | nmod:poss |
| 33 | accustomed | accustomed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 place | amod |
| 34 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 floating | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | past | another gleam of colour and the Hawaiian flag | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | crawl up in a quote | participle | the Hawaiian flag not said here | the taut ropes | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location rope=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shake in a quote | past | the Hawaiian flag not said here | flag | free property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent itself=Patient | |||
| 4 | float in a quote | gerund | flag's blue bars not said here | gleam's accustomed place | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=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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