Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 152
The final salute to the Hawaiian emblem of an independent nation was fired.
What happens: fire · To what, where: final salute
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: 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 | 3 salute | det |
| 2 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 salute | amod |
| 3 | salute | salute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fired | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 emblem | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 emblem | det |
| 6 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 emblem | amod |
| 7 | emblem | emblem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 salute | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 nation | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 nation | det |
| 10 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nation | amod |
| 11 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 emblem | nmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fired | aux:pass |
| 13 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 fired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fire | past · passive | the final salute to the Hawaiian emblem of a independent nation | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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