Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 146
Great preparations were made for the solemn exercises attending the transfer of the Republic of Hawaii to the Republic of the United States.
Who acts: solemn exercises · What happens: make, attend, transfer · To what, where: Great preparations, transfer, Republic
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 (solemn exercises), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 preparations | amod |
| 2 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 exercises | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 exercises | det |
| 7 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 exercises | amod |
| 8 | exercises | exercise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obl |
| 9 | attending | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 exercises | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 transfer | det |
| 11 | transfer | transfer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 attending | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Republic | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Republic | det |
| 14 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 transfer | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Hawaii | case |
| 16 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Republic | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Republic | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Republic | det |
| 19 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 attending | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 States | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 States | det |
| 22 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 States | amod |
| 23 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 Republic | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | Great preparations | for the solemn exercises | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for exercise=Asset | ||||
| 2 | attend | gerund | the solemn exercises not said here | the transfer of the Republic of Hawaii | to the Republic of the United States | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme transfer=Goal | |||
| 3 | transfer | the Republic of Hawaii | nom transfer «act 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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