Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 21
When the king made Honolulu his chief royal residence the flag floated over his house near the seashore.
Who acts: king, flag · What happens: make, float · To what, where: chief royal residence, Honolulu, house
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 (king, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 made | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 floated | advcl |
| 5 | Honolulu | Honolulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 residence | nmod:poss |
| 7 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 residence | amod |
| 8 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 residence | amod |
| 9 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 flag | det |
| 11 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 floated | nsubj |
| 12 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 house | nmod:poss |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 floated | obl |
| 16 | near | near | ADP | _ | 18 seashore | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 seashore | det |
| 18 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 floated | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 floated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the king | king's chief royal residence | Honolulu | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset honolulu=Beneficiary residence=Product | |||
| 2 | float | past | the flag | king's house | near the seashore | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme over house=Source near seashore=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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