Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 18

It should be said that during preceding centuries each high chief had carried a pennant of coloured native cloth at the masthead of his double war canoe, but these were individual and family rather than national banners.

Who acts: these · What happens: say, precede, carry, be · To what, where: guardianship, high chief, masthead · 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 (these), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 said	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	aux:pass
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 carried	mark
6	during	during	ADP	_	7 preceding	mark
7	preceding	precede	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 carried	advcl
8	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 preceding	obj
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 chief	det
10	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 chief	amod
11	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carried	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 carried	aux
13	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 said	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pennant	det
15	pennant	pennant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carried	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 cloth	case
17	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cloth	amod
18	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cloth	amod
19	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pennant	nmod
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 masthead	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 masthead	det
22	masthead	masthead	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carried	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 canoe	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 canoe	nmod:poss
25	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 canoe	amod
26	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 canoe	compound
27	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 masthead	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 individual	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 individual	cc
30	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 individual	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 individual	cop
32	individual	individual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	parataxis
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 family	cc
34	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 individual	conj
35	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	38 banners	cc
36	than	than	ADP	_	35 rather	fixed
37	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 banners	amod
38	banners	banner	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 individual	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	should · passive		guardianship				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	precede	gerund				century		vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	carry	past · perfect · passive		each high chief	the masthead of Vancouver's double war canoe		a pennant of coloured native cloth obj	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary pennant=Value
4	is	past	these				family conj; national banners conj; individual property	tree rules

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 18

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 18