Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 141
The troops of the Provisional Government presented arms, but the American men-of-war in the harbour did not salute the restored flag.”
Who acts: troops, American men · What happens: present, not salute, restore · To what, where: arms, restored flag
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 (troops, American men), 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 troops | det |
| 2 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 presented | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Government | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Government | det |
| 5 | Provisional | provisional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Government | amod |
| 6 | Government | Government | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 troops | nmod |
| 7 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 presented | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 salute | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 salute | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 men | det |
| 12 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 men | amod |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 salute | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 war | punct |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 war | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 of | punct |
| 17 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 men | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 harbour | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 harbour | det |
| 20 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 war | nmod |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 salute | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 salute | advmod |
| 23 | salute | salute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 presented | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 flag | det |
| 25 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 flag | amod |
| 26 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 salute | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 salute | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 salute | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | past | the troops of the Provisional Government | arms | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not salute | past · do-support | the American men of war in the harbour | the restored flag | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Topic | ||||
| 3 | restore | participle | 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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