Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 64
On February 25, 1794, forty-nine years before, Vancouver’s flag-raising ceremony had taken place.
What happens: raise, take · To what, where: raising ceremony, 25
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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 25 | case |
| 2 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 25 | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 taken | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 1794 | punct |
| 5 | 1794 | 1794 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 25 | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 25 | punct |
| 7 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 25 | nmod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 forty | punct |
| 9 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 before | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | before | before | ADV | _ | 3 25 | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 25 | punct |
| 13 | Vancouver | Vancouver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 ceremony | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Vancouver | case |
| 15 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 raising | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 flag | punct |
| 17 | raising | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 ceremony | amod |
| 18 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 taken | aux |
| 20 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taken | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | gerund | flag compound | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect · passive | Vancouver's raising ceremony | 25 February forty | place obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination |
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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