Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 29
The flag would permit England to advance whatever claim might be desired in case of any great trouble.
Who acts: flag · What happens: permit, advance, desire · To what, where: England, claim, case
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 flag | det |
| 2 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 permit | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 permit | aux |
| 4 | permit | permit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 permit | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 advance | mark |
| 7 | advance | advance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 permit | xcomp |
| 8 | whatever | whatever | DET | PronType=Int | 9 claim | det |
| 9 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 desired | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 desired | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 desired | aux:pass |
| 12 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 advance | ccomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 case | case |
| 14 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 desired | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 trouble | case |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 trouble | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 trouble | amod |
| 18 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 case | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 permit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | permit | would | the flag | England | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer england=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | advance not said to happen | to-infinitive | the flag not said here | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | desire | might · passive | whatever claim | case of any great trouble | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |
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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