Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 144
It remained the flag of the Republic until the news reached Honolulu that President McKinley, on July 7, 1898, had signed the joint resolution of annexation adopted by both houses of Congress.
Who acts: flag, news · What happens: remain, reach, sign, adopt, resolve · To what, where: flag, Honolulu, McKinley, annexation
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, news), 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 | 2 remained | nsubj |
| 2 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 flag | det |
| 4 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remained | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Republic | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Republic | det |
| 7 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 flag | nmod |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 reached | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 news | det |
| 10 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | nsubj |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 remained | advcl |
| 12 | Honolulu | Honolulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 signed | mark |
| 14 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 McKinley | nmod:desc |
| 15 | McKinley | McKinley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 signed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 7 | punct |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 7 | case |
| 18 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 7 | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 McKinley | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 1898 | punct |
| 21 | 1898 | 1898 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 7 | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 McKinley | punct |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 signed | aux |
| 24 | signed | sign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 reached | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 resolution | det |
| 26 | joint | joint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 resolution | amod |
| 27 | resolution | resolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 signed | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 annexation | case |
| 29 | annexation | annexation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 resolution | nmod |
| 30 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 annexation | acl |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 houses | case |
| 32 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 houses | det |
| 33 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 adopted | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Congress | case |
| 35 | Congress | Congress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 houses | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | flag | the flag of the Republic | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flag=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | the news | Honolulu | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent honolulu=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sign | past · perfect · passive | McKinley President | the joint resolution of annexation obj | vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient resolution=Topic | ||||
| 4 | adopt | participle | annexation not said here | by both houses of Congress | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | resolve | annexation | nom resolution «communication transitive»: of=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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