Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 158
Then a clear sounding call from the bugles of the s. s. Philadelphia, a sudden stir through all the throng, and then with the triumphant ringing strains of the ‘Star Spangled Banner,’ up rose majestically our own dear flag, reaching the truck with the last grand chord.
Who acts: triumphant ringing strains, clear sounding call, Spangled Banner · What happens: spangle, ' up, rise, reach, strain · To what, where: Star, own dear flag, truck
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 (triumphant ringing strains, clear sounding call, Spangled Banner), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 call | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 call | det |
| 3 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 call | amod |
| 4 | sounding | sounding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 call | compound |
| 5 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 rose | nsubj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 bugles | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bugles | det |
| 8 | bugles | bugle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 call | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Philadelphia | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Philadelphia | det |
| 11 | s. | S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 s. | compound |
| 12 | s. | S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Philadelphia | compound |
| 13 | Philadelphia | Philadelphia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bugles | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stir | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 stir | det |
| 16 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stir | amod |
| 17 | stir | stir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Philadelphia | appos |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 throng | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 throng | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 throng | det |
| 21 | throng | throng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stir | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 ’ | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 ’ | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 strains | advmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 strains | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 strains | det |
| 27 | triumphant | triumphant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 strains | amod |
| 28 | ringing | ringing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 strains | compound |
| 29 | strains | strain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 ’ | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Banner | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Banner | det |
| 32 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 Star | punct |
| 33 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Spangled | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | Spangled | spangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 Banner | amod |
| 35 | Banner | Banner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 strains | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 strains | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 rose | advcl |
| 38 | up | up | ADP | _ | 37 ’ | compound:prt |
| 39 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 40 | majestically | majestically | ADV | _ | 44 flag | advmod |
| 41 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 flag | nmod:poss |
| 42 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 flag | amod |
| 43 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 flag | amod |
| 44 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 rose | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 reaching | punct |
| 46 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 rose | advcl |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 truck | det |
| 48 | truck | truck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 reaching | obj |
| 49 | with | with | ADP | _ | 53 chord | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 chord | det |
| 51 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 chord | amod |
| 52 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 chord | amod |
| 53 | chord | chord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 reaching | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spangle | participle | Star | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ' up | present | the triumphant ringing strains of the Spangled Banner | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rise | past | a clear sounding call from the bugles of the s. Philadelphia | our own dear flag | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | reach | gerund | a clear sounding call from the bugles of the s. Philadelphia not said here | the truck | with the last grand chord | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent truck=Theme | |||
| 5 | strain | the Spangled Banner | nom strain «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
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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