Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 44
The old king was very proud of his beautiful new flag, and displayed it from his palace and over the royal homes in other islands.
Who acts: old king · What happens: be, display · To what, where: flag, palace
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 (old king), 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 king | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 proud | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 proud | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 proud | advmod |
| 6 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 flag | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 flag | nmod:poss |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 flag | amod |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 flag | amod |
| 11 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 proud | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 displayed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 displayed | cc |
| 14 | displayed | display | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 proud | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 displayed | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 palace | nmod:poss |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 displayed | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 homes | cc |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 homes | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 homes | det |
| 22 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 homes | amod |
| 23 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 palace | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 islands | case |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 islands | amod |
| 26 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 homes | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 proud | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the old king | of king's beautiful new flag; proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | display | past | the old king not said here | flag | king's palace and the royal homes in other islands | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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