Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 163
Then President Dole and his cabinet took the oath of allegiance to the United States.
Who acts: President · What happens: take · To what, where: oath, United States
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 (President), 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 | 7 took | advmod |
| 2 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 took | nsubj |
| 3 | Dole | Dole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 President | flat |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cabinet | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cabinet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cabinet | cabinet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 President | conj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 oath | det |
| 9 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 allegiance | case |
| 11 | allegiance | allegiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 oath | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 States | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 States | det |
| 14 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 States | amod |
| 15 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 took | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | President and President's cabinet | the oath of allegiance | the United States | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent oath=Theme to state=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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