Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 42
They were eight in number, to represent the eight principal islands of the group.
Who acts: stripes · What happens: be, represent · To what, where: eight, number, eight principal islands
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 (stripes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 eight | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 eight | cop |
| 3 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 number | case |
| 5 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eight | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 represent | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 represent | mark |
| 8 | represent | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 eight | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 islands | det |
| 10 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 islands | nummod |
| 11 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 islands | amod |
| 12 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 represent | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 group | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 group | det |
| 15 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 islands | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | stripes = stripe | eight | number | tree rules | |||
| 2 | represent | to-infinitive | stripes = stripe not said here | the eight principal islands of the group | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot island=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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