Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 38
The pattern flag, the first one made, was afterward “fashioned into a child’s frock and worn on special occasions by each one of the children in succession, and was long preserved as an heirloom in the family.”
Who acts: pattern flag · What happens: make, be, wear, preserve · To what, where: first one, frock, special occasions
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 (pattern 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 | 3 flag | det |
| 2 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flag | compound |
| 3 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fashioned | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flag | appos |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 one | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 flag | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fashioned | cop |
| 11 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 13 fashioned | advmod |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 fashioned | punct |
| 13 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 frock | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 child | det |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 frock | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 child | case |
| 18 | frock | frock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fashioned | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 worn | cc |
| 20 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 fashioned | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 occasions | case |
| 22 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 occasions | amod |
| 23 | occasions | occasion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 worn | obl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 one | case |
| 25 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 one | det |
| 26 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 worn | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 children | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 children | det |
| 29 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 one | nmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 succession | case |
| 31 | succession | succession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 children | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 preserved | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 preserved | cc |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 preserved | aux:pass |
| 35 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 preserved | advmod |
| 36 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 fashioned | conj |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 heirloom | case |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 heirloom | det |
| 39 | heirloom | heirloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 preserved | obl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 family | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 family | det |
| 42 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 heirloom | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 fashioned | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 fashioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | the first one not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | the pattern flag | a child's frock | afterward, fashioned property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | wear in a quote | participle | the pattern flag not said here | special occasions | by each one of the children in succession | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | preserve in a quote | past · passive | the pattern flag not said here | as a heirloom in the family; long property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING» |
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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