Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 40
The Jack was retained to show the king’s friendship for England.
What happens: retain, show · To what, where: Jack, friendship
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 | 2 Jack | det |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 retained | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 retained | aux:pass |
| 4 | retained | retain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 show | mark |
| 6 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 retained | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 friendship | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 show | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 England | case |
| 12 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 friendship | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 retained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retain | past · passive | the Jack | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | the king's friendship | for England | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friendship=Recipient |
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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