Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 167
The Hawaiian flag still floats over many a home in the islands, as well as over the corner posts of the old palace under the American flag, as the permanent flag of the Territory of Hawaii.
Who acts: Hawaiian flag · What happens: float · To what, where: many, islands
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 (Hawaiian 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 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flag | amod |
| 3 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 floats | nsubj |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 floats | advmod |
| 5 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 7 many | advmod |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 floats | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 home | det |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 floats | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 islands | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 islands | det |
| 12 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 floats | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 posts | punct |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 20 posts | cc |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 as | fixed |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 as | fixed |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 posts | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 posts | det |
| 19 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 posts | compound |
| 20 | posts | post | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 floats | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 palace | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 palace | det |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 palace | amod |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 posts | nmod |
| 25 | under | under | ADP | _ | 28 flag | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 flag | det |
| 27 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 flag | amod |
| 28 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 palace | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 flag | punct |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 flag | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 flag | det |
| 32 | permanent | permanent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 flag | amod |
| 33 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 posts | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Territory | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Territory | det |
| 36 | Territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 flag | nmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Hawaii | case |
| 38 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Territory | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 floats | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | present | the Hawaiian flag | many | the islands | still | over the corner posts of the old palace under the American flag as the permanent flag of the Territory of Hawaii; a home obl | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent many=Theme in island=Trajectory over post=Initial_Location |
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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