Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 41
The stripes were said to represent the red, white and blue of the American flag.
What happens: say, represent · To what, where: stripes, red · 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: 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 stripes | det |
| 2 | stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | aux:pass |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 represent | mark |
| 6 | represent | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 red | det |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 represent | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 white | punct |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 red | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 blue | cc |
| 12 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 red | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 flag | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 flag | det |
| 15 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 flag | amod |
| 16 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blue | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · passive | the stripes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | represent | to-infinitive | the red | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot red=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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