Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 2
The Union Jack in the upper or “halyard” corner, and eight stripes, red, white and blue, constitute the old flag of Hawaii.
What happens: constitute · To what, where: old flag, halyard corner
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Jack | det |
| 2 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Jack | compound |
| 3 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 corner | nmod:poss |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 upper | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 upper | det |
| 6 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Jack | nmod |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 halyard | cc |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 halyard | punct |
| 9 | halyard | halyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 corner | compound |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 halyard | punct |
| 11 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stripes | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stripes | cc |
| 14 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 stripes | nummod |
| 15 | stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 corner | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 red | punct |
| 17 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 corner | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 white | punct |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 red | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 blue | cc |
| 21 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 red | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 constitute | punct |
| 23 | constitute | constitute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 corner | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 flag | det |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 flag | amod |
| 26 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 constitute | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Hawaii | case |
| 28 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 flag | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 corner | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | constitute | infinitive | the old flag of Hawaii | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flag=Pivot |
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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