Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 17
Nevertheless, there was a nominal guardianship afforded by the presence of the English flag floating over the Hawaiian grass houses and fleets of boats.
Who acts: nominal guardianship, English flag · What happens: be, afford, float · To what, where: nominal guardianship, Hawaiian grass houses
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 (nominal guardianship, English 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 4 was | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 guardianship | det |
| 6 | nominal | nominal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 guardianship | amod |
| 7 | guardianship | guardianship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 8 | afforded | afford | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 guardianship | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 presence | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 presence | det |
| 11 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 afforded | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 flag | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 flag | det |
| 14 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 flag | amod |
| 15 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 presence | nmod |
| 16 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 flag | acl |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 houses | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 houses | det |
| 19 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 houses | amod |
| 20 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 houses | compound |
| 21 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 floating | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fleets | cc |
| 23 | fleets | fleet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 houses | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 boats | case |
| 25 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fleets | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a nominal guardianship | there | nevertheless property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | afford | participle | a nominal guardianship not said here | by the presence of the English flag | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | float | gerund | the English flag not said here | the Hawaiian grass houses and fleets of boats | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over house=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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