Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 154
Mrs. Garland, an eye-witness, said: “The music ceased and for one instant the Hawaiian flag still floated, then as it was slowly lowered, utter stillness held every one mute.
Who acts: Mrs., music, Hawaiian flag, utter stillness · What happens: say, cease, float, lower, hold · To what, where: flag, one mute · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Mrs., music, Hawaiian flag, utter stillness), 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 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 2 | Garland | Garland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mrs. | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 witness | punct |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 witness | det |
| 5 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 witness | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 eye | punct |
| 7 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mrs. | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mrs. | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 ceased | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 ceased | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 music | det |
| 13 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ceased | nsubj |
| 14 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 floated | cc |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 instant | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 instant | nummod |
| 18 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 floated | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 flag | det |
| 20 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 flag | amod |
| 21 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 floated | nsubj |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 floated | advmod |
| 23 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ceased | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 lowered | punct |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 lowered | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 lowered | mark |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 lowered | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 lowered | aux:pass |
| 29 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 30 lowered | advmod |
| 30 | lowered | lower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 floated | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 stillness | punct |
| 32 | utter | utter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 stillness | amod |
| 33 | stillness | stillness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lowered | obl |
| 34 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 stillness | acl |
| 35 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 mute | det |
| 36 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 mute | compound |
| 37 | mute | mute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 held | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Mrs. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | cease in a quote | past | the music | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | float in a quote | past | the Hawaiian flag | still | for one instant | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | lower in a quote | past · passive | flag | then | utter stillness obl; slowly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 5 | hold in a quote | participle | utter stillness not said here | every one mute | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mute=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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