Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 19
At first the English flag was established only upon the island of Hawaii.
What happens: establish · To what, where: English flag
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 established | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 flag | det |
| 4 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 flag | amod |
| 5 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 established | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 established | aux:pass |
| 7 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 island | advmod |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 island | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 island | det |
| 11 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 established | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Hawaii | case |
| 13 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 island | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 established | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish | past · passive | the English flag | upon the island of Hawaii | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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