Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 32

Alexander, in a report to the Hawaiian Historical Society, says that upon the outbreak of this war a friendly American persuaded Ka-meha-meha I “to have a flag of his own.”

Who acts: Alexander, friendly American · What happens: say, persuade, have · To what, where: that, Ka, flag · 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 (Alexander, friendly American), 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	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 report	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 report	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 report	det
5	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Alexander	appos
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 Society	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Society	det
8	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Society	compound
9	Historical	Historical	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Society	compound
10	Society	Society	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 report	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Alexander	punct
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 says	obj
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 outbreak	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 outbreak	det
16	outbreak	outbreak	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 persuaded	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 war	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 war	det
19	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 outbreak	nmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 American	det
21	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 American	amod
22	American	American	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 persuaded	nsubj
23	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 says	ccomp
24	Ka	Ka	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 persuaded	obj
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 meha	punct
26	meha	meha	X	Foreign=Yes	24 Ka	dep
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 meha	punct
28	meha	meha	X	Foreign=Yes	24 Ka	dep
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 “	nsubj
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 persuaded	punct
31	to	to	PART	_	32 have	mark
32	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 “	advcl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 flag	det
34	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 have	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 own	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 own	nmod:poss
37	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 flag	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Alexander	that		tree rules
2	persuade	past	a friendly American	Ka	upon the outbreak of this war; I nsubj	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ka=Patient
3	have in a quote	to-infinitive	a friendly American not said here	a flag of war's own		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 32

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 32