Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 147
On August 12, 1898, thousands of people again crowded into the government grounds.
Who acts: thousands · What happens: crowd · To what, where: 12
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 (thousands), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 12 | case |
| 2 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 12 | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 crowded | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 1898 | punct |
| 5 | 1898 | 1898 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 12 | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 12 | punct |
| 7 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 crowded | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thousands | nmod |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 crowded | advmod |
| 11 | crowded | crowd | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 grounds | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 grounds | det |
| 14 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grounds | compound |
| 15 | grounds | grounds | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 11 crowded | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 crowded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crowd | past | thousands of people | 12 August | again | into the government grounds | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on 12=Destination |
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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