Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 169
As one writer says, this feeling shows that “the flag does not represent so much a particular form of government as it does the great heart of the people which throbs beneath.”
Who acts: one writer, feeling, flag, people · What happens: say, show, not represent, do, throb, form · To what, where: particular form, great heart, government · 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 (one writer, feeling, flag, people), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 says | mark |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 writer | nummod |
| 3 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 shows | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 feeling | det |
| 7 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shows | nsubj |
| 8 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 represent | mark |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 represent | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flag | det |
| 12 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 represent | nsubj |
| 13 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 represent | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 represent | advmod |
| 15 | represent | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 shows | ccomp |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 20 form | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 form | det |
| 19 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 form | amod |
| 20 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 represent | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 government | case |
| 22 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 form | nmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 does | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 does | nsubj |
| 25 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 represent | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 heart | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 heart | amod |
| 28 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 does | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 people | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 people | det |
| 31 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 heart | nmod |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 throbs | nsubj |
| 33 | throbs | throb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 people | acl:relcl |
| 34 | beneath | beneath | ADV | _ | 33 throbs | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shows | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | one writer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | show | present | this feeling | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not represent in a quote | present · do-support | the flag | a particular form of government | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot form=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present | flag | the great heart of the people | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | throb in a quote | present | the people | beneath property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | form in a quote | government | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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