Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 166
The American flag floats in its own influential place over the palace, not as a kingly, but as a republican flag.
Who acts: American flag · What happens: float · To what, where: own influential place
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 (American flag), 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 flag | det |
| 2 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flag | amod |
| 3 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 floats | nsubj |
| 4 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 place | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 place | amod |
| 8 | influential | influential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 place | amod |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 floats | obl |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 floats | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kingly | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 kingly | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 kingly | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 kingly | det |
| 17 | kingly | kingly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 floats | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 flag | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 flag | cc |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 flag | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 flag | det |
| 22 | republican | Republican | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 flag | amod |
| 23 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kingly | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 floats | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | present | the American flag | flag's own influential place | over the palace | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in place=Source over palace=Trajectory |
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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