Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 143
The beautiful and loved flag of Hawaii, the royal flag from the times of Ka-meha-meha I, the ensign of the Provisional Government, unchanged, became the banner of the first Republic of the Pacific Ocean.
Who acts: beautiful flag · What happens: love, become · To what, where: banner
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 (beautiful flag), 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 | 5 flag | det |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 flag | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 loved | cc |
| 4 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 beautiful | conj |
| 5 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 became | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Hawaii | case |
| 7 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 flag | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 flag | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 flag | det |
| 10 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 flag | amod |
| 11 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flag | conj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 times | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 times | det |
| 14 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flag | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Ka | case |
| 16 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 times | nmod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 meha | punct |
| 18 | meha | meha | X | _ | 16 Ka | dep |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 meha | punct |
| 20 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 meha | flat:foreign |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 meha | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ensign | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ensign | det |
| 24 | ensign | ensign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Ka | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Government | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Government | det |
| 27 | Provisional | provisional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Government | amod |
| 28 | Government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ensign | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 unchanged | punct |
| 30 | unchanged | unchanged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ensign | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 flag | punct |
| 32 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 banner | det |
| 34 | banner | banner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 became | xcomp |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Republic | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Republic | det |
| 37 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 38 Republic | amod |
| 38 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 banner | nmod |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Ocean | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Ocean | det |
| 41 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Ocean | compound |
| 42 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Republic | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | the beautiful flag of Hawaii and the royal flag from the times of Ka not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | become | past | the beautiful flag of Hawaii and the royal flag from the times of Ka | the banner of the first Republic of the Pacific Ocean | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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